DBMS > HBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. PostgreSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Document store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

SenX

Initial release

2008

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2009

2018

2015

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

16.3, May 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

range based

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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)

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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