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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. Hypertable vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

In-memory caching system

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cachelot.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

Initial release

1999

2015

2009

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Memcached protocol

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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