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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Trafodion

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgmaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquasar.aitrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastertrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OraclequasardbApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20081984201120092014
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.9.10.12, February 202423.3, December 20233.14.1, January 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesoptionalyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnowith Hadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infooff heap cacheyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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