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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Prometheus

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelWide column storeSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchprometheus.io
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoft
Initial release200820152015
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesNumeric data only
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 authenticationno

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