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DBMS > HBase vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgnsdb.ioprometheus.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlnsdb.io/­Architectureprometheus.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2008201720152018
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaGoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby FederationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoRole-based access control

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