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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. XTDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableTime Series DBMS based on CassandraJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspouchdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenNMS GroupApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20082014201220092019
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptErlangClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnonoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnonoyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaJavaScriptC 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
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoView functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonoyes, using Riak Security

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