DBMS > HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2011

2007

1992

2000

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

14.1, August 2023

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Telnet API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

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

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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)

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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