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DBMS > HBase vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbopentsdb.netdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetGooglecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2008201120112020
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.23, February 20210.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonono

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