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Name

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

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

bangdb.com

hbase.apache.org

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Hypertable Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

2002

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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

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