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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

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

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

arcadedb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Arcade Data

Hypertable Inc.

IBM

Microsoft

Initial release

2021

2009

1983

host version

2014

Current release

September 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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