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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

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

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

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

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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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