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DBMS > AgensGraph vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. ITTIA vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. HBase vs. Hypertable vs. ITTIA vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.44
Rank#267  Overall
#23  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphhbase.apache.orgwww.ittia.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.ITTIA L.L.C.Timescale
Initial release20162008200920072017
Current release2.1, December 20182.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 20168.72.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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