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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Firebolt vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Spatial extension of H2

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

www.firebolt.io

www.h2gis.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.firebolt.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Alibaba

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

CNRS

Hypertable Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2016

2020

2013

2009

2016

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

depending on storage layer

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

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 rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

based on H2

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