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DBMS > HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RisingWave vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RisingWave vs. SQL.JS

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA relational database management system that stores data in columnsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databasesql.js.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMonetDB BVRisingWave LabsAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release200820042014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20222012
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 202310 R1, October 20181.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCRustJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
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-standardUsers and Rolesno

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