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DBMS > HBase vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Riak KV vs. SQL.JS vs. STSdb vs. Teradata

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storePort of SQLite to JavaScriptKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgsql.js.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.teradata.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.teradata.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSTS Soft SCTeradata
Initial release20082009201220111984
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windowshosted
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesnorestrictednoyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JavaScript API.NET Client API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
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
JavaScriptC#
Java
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaErlangnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"nonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes, using Riak Securitynonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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