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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2008

2014

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

JSON types

yes

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

via views

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JavaScript API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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)

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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