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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Oracle Coherence vs. QuestDB vs. searchxml vs. STSdb

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOracles in-memory data grid solutionA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequestdb.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencequestdb.io/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOracleQuestDB Technology Incinformationpartners gmbhSTS Soft SC
Initial release20082007201420152011
Current release2.3.4, January 202114.1, August 20231.04.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsWindows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyesyes 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)configurableACID for single-table writesmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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HBaseOracle CoherenceQuestDBsearchxmlSTSdb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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