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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV 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

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2019

2009

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

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

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

yes

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