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DBMS > HBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.timescale.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.timescale.comwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPerconaOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTimescaleWakanda SAS
Initial release20082015200920172012
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20173.2.0, December 20222.15.0, May 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangCC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJavaScriptErlanguser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infonone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infovia In-Memory Enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and rolesyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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