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DBMS > HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OceanBase vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OceanBase vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchen.oceanbase.comwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2008201520102013
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V14.3.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeJavaScript
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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