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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

splicemachine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Splice Machine

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2013

2014

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

3.1, March 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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)

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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