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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Newts vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsobjectbox.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS GroupObjectBox LimitedquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20082014201720092009
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infowith tagsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary native APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanononoErlang
Triggersyesnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak Security
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