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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

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Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transwarp

Initial release

2008

2015

1994

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

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

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