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    HBase

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AThe Apache HBase project's goal is the hosting of very large tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- atop clusters of commodity hardware. Apache HBase is an open-source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database modeled after Google's Bigtable.N/A

    H2 Database

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AH2 Database Engine is an open source, embeddable database management system (RDMS) written in Java.N/A
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    HBaseH2 Database
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    HBaseH2 Database
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Apache HBase and H2 Database Engine
    Feature
    Apache HBase
    7.7
    5 Ratings
    14% below category average
    H2 Database Engine
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    Performance7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Concurrency7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scalability8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data model flexibility7.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    HBaseH2 Database
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    7.7
    (10 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    HBaseH2 Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apache
    Hbase is well suited for large organizations with millions of operations performing on tables, real-time lookup of records in a table, range queries, random reads and writes and online analytics operations. Hbase cannot be replaced for traditional databases as it cannot support all the features, CPU and memory intensive. Observed increased latency when using with MapReduce job joins.
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    For running application tests it's well suited. H2 [Database Engine] can replace the real-world database solution for them easily and removes the requirement to set up a a separate database instance just for running unit tests. For using in actual production application one needs to consider scale. H2 is suitable if application runs in single instance and database is located in same machine as a file where that application runs. This means the application shouldn't have a large user base. However it's easy to switch to an actual MySQL instance if the need arises, it's most likely only a configuration change and doesn't require new code.
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    Pros
    Apache
    • Scalability. HBase can scale to trillions of records.
    • Fast. HBase is extremely fast to scan values or retrieve individual records by key.
    • HBase can be accessed by standard SQL via Apache Phoenix.
    • Integrated. I can easily store and retrieve data from HBase using Apache Spark.
    • It is easy to set up DR and backups.
    • Ingest. It is easy to ingest data into HBase via shell, Java, Apache NiFi, Storm, Spark, Flink, Python and other means.
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    Open Source
    • Can run as an in-memory database.
    • Simple and quick to get started with, and is light weight (only 2MB).
    • SQL compliant so it compatible with most relational databases.
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    Cons
    Apache
    • There are very few commands in HBase.
    • Stored procedures functionality is not available so it should be implemented.
    • HBase is CPU and Memory intensive with large sequential input or output access while as Map Reduce jobs are primarily input or output bound with fixed memory. HBase integrated with Map-reduce jobs will result in random latencies.
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    Open Source
    • There's a warning in official FAQ "Is it Reliable?"-section which makes it seem like H2 is not yet a mature product.
    • If raw SQL queries are used there maybe be differences between MySQL & H2. ORM library should be used.
    • Support seems to be community-based only.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
    There's really not anything else out there that I've seen comparable for my use cases. HBase has never proven me wrong. Some companies align their whole business on HBase and are moving all of their infrastructure from other database engines to HBase. It's also open source and has a very collaborative community.
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    Apache
    Cassandra os great for writes. But with large datasets, depending, not as great as HBASE. Cassandra does support parquet now. HBase still performance issues. Cassandra has use cases of being used as time series. HBase, it fails miserably. GeoSpatial data, Hbase does work to an extent. HA between the two are almost the same.
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    Open Source
    While both can run as an in-memory database, H2 Database Engine was just so much easier for us to use since we primarily use the Java stack and H2 Database Engine is also built with Java.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • As Hbase is a noSql database, here we don't have transaction support and we cannot do many operations on the data.
    • Not having the feature of primary or a composite primary key is an issue as the architecture to be defined cannot be the same legacy type. Also the transaction concept is not applicable here.
    • The way data is printed on console is not so user-friendly. So we had to use some abstraction over HBase (eg apache phoenix) which means there is one new component to handle.
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    Open Source
    • Doesn't take time from developers, once it's configs are set up for testing it works in everyone's development environments
    • Easy to integrate in application, no need to setup separate database software, no maintenance
    • No need to deal with infrastructure related issues/costs - database runs in same machine as the application that uses it.
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