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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. NSDb vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

nsdb.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

nsdb.io/Architecture

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2008

2017

2011

2012

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java
Scala

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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