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DBMS > HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWidely used in-process key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSiteWhere
Initial release2008201119942010
Current release2.3.4, January 202118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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