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System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb vs. Typesense

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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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	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

hbase.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

typesense.org

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2013

2011

2015

Current release

2.3.4, January 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

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

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

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

simple password-based access control

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