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DBMS > HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset vs. TerarkDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.monetdb.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.rockset.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMonetDB BVRocksetByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2008200420192016
Current release2.3.4, January 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesdynamic typingno
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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