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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Riak KV vs. Speedb vs. STSdb vs. TiDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.speedb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4pingcap.com
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSpeedbSTS Soft SCPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20082009202020112016
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 20158.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C#Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnonoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnorestrictednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in JavaErlangnonono
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factoryesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednonoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noyesnoACID
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.yesyesno
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
More information provided by the system vendor
HBaseRiak KVSpeedbSTSdbTiDB
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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