DBMS > HBase vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Newts vs. PouchDB vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2014

2012

2014

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

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