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DBMS > HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgobjectbox.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20082017200920152011
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20223.0.0, September 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ErlangErlangC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnonoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
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
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
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavanoErlangErlangno
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factorselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyesyes, using Riak Securitynono
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