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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. SQLite vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.sqlite.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2000

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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