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DBMS > HBase vs. OpenQM vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenQM vs. RRDtool vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTobias OetikerApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20081993199920142011
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.4-121.8.0, 20223.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableScalaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infowith some exceptionsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVRONumeric data onlyyesyes 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.noyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
in-process shared library
Pipes
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javayesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
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 datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnonono

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