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DBMS > HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Splunk

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSWidely used open source RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
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
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.mysql.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdev.mysql.com/­docwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.
Initial release20081989199520092003
Current release2.3.4, January 2021SQL Server 2022, November 20228.4.0, April 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesnoyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes infoproprietary syntaxErlangyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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