HBase

Based on 340 responses from 64 people, we've built up the following picture of HBase

Ranked high for:

  1. This database has very good read performance
  2. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  5. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  6. This database has a very flexible data model
  7. This database has a good story for replication
  8. This database is highly scalable
  9. This database has a good community around it
  10. This database has an unusual data model

Ranked low for:

  1. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  2. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  3. This database is good for querying time series
  4. This database is good for querying graph structures
  5. This database is very reliable
  6. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  7. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  8. This database can be a bit arcane
  9. This database has very good write performance
  10. There are good commercial tools for working with this database

Most similar to

  1. Memcachedb
  2. MongoDB
  3. Tokyo Cabinet
  4. GenieDB
  5. CouchDB

Most dissimilar from

  1. neo4j
  2. Flat files
  3. Access
  4. Oracle
  5. dbm

All statements

  1. This database has very good read performance
  2. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  3. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  5. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  6. This database has a very flexible data model
  7. This database has a good story for replication
  8. This database is highly scalable
  9. This database has a good community around it
  10. This database has an unusual data model
  11. This database is very easy to get started with
  12. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  13. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  14. I am familiar with this database
  15. This database has a low footprint
  16. This database has a very restrictive data model
  17. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  18. This database has very good write performance
  19. This database can be a bit arcane
  20. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  21. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  22. This database is very reliable
  23. This database is good for querying graph structures
  24. This database is good for querying time series
  25. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  26. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database