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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. Hypertable vs. PostgreSQL vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

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

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	22.62
Rank	#27	Overall
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	674.32
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#70	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	117.77
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hypertable Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2008

2009

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2013

2000

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

16.4, August 2024

8.5, January 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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