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DBMS > HBase vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml vs. TempoIQ

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
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Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitehbase.apache.orgpouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologiesinformationpartners gmbhTempoIQ
Initial release20082012200920152012
Current release2.3.4, January 20217.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 20221.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptErlangC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnonoyesyes
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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptC 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
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaView functions in JavaScriptErlangyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyes, using Riak SecurityDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicessimple authentication-based access control

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