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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

raima.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.raima.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Microsoft

Raima Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2008

2014

1984

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

15, June 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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)

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Key customers

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News

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10 June 2021

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1 October 2020

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19 May 2020

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