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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. LeanXcale vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.leanxcale.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

LeanXcale

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

1994

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
Java
Scala

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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