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DBMS > HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Snowflake vs. Splunk vs. YDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataAnalytics Platform for Big DataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score31.60
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score845.81
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score89.68
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.36
Rank#281  Overall
#43  Document stores
#128  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.snowflake.comwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftSnowflake Computing Inc.Splunk Inc.Yandex
Initial release20081989201420032019
Current release2.3.4, January 2021SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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.noyesyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionyesMulti-source replicationActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnonono
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, user roles and pluggable authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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