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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. NuoDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sadasengine.com

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

doc.nuodb.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Ultipa

Initial release

2008

2013

2006

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
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

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

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

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

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

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

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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