DBMS > HBase vs. MaxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. MaxDB vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

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

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

1984

2017

2014

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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