DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. Riak TS vs. SWC-DB

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Name

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

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

drill.apache.org

www.mysql.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2009

1995

2015

2020

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes, limited

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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