DBMS > Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. ReductStore

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Heroic vs. Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. ReductStore

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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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.05
Rank	#384	Overall
	#44	Time Series DBMS

Website

altibase.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Altibase

Spotify

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

ReductStore LLC

Initial release

1999

2014

2009

2021

2023

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

C++, Rust

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

via Elasticsearch

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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