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DBMS > HBase vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWidely used open source RDBMSDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score31.60
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.mysql.comwww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldev.mysql.com/­docwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSequoiadb Ltd.STS Soft SC
Initial release20081995200920132011
Current release2.3.4, January 20218.3.0, January 20243.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ErlangC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
proprietary protocol using JSON.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
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
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes infoproprietary syntaxErlangJavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, using Riak Securitysimple password-based access controlno

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