DBMS > HBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

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

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yanza.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Yanza

Initial release

2008

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2011

2015

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

10 R1, October 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

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
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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, using Riak Security

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