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DBMS > HBase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Titan

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOracles in-memory data grid solutionTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftMonetDB BVOracleAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20082010200420072012
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V12Dec2023 (11.49), December 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++CJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas availablenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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