DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BoltDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Db2 warehouse

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Description

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

github.com/boltdb/bolt

cassandra.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hypertable Inc.

IBM

Initial release

2016

2013

2008

2009

2014

Current release

1703

4.1.3, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

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

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

LDAP

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single 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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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