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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

machbase.com

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Machbase

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

V8.0, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

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