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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#285	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

objectbox.io

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.objectbox.io

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

ObjectBox Limited

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2017

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Active-passive shard replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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