DBMS > HBase vs. Netezza vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Netezza vs. SAP HANA vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Open Source Time Series DBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

siridb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

IBM

SAP

Cesbit

Mireo

Initial release

2008

2000

2010

2017

2020

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

included in appliance

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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

Numeric data

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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