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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenEdge vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. TypeDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableApplication development environment with integrated database management systemSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgespark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmltypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetProgress Software CorporationApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVaticle
Initial release20081984201420142016
Current release2.3.4, January 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 20192.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavayesnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yes, utilizing Spark CoreShardingSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACIDACID
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.yesnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers and groupsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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HBaseOpenEdgeSpark SQLTrafodionTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
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