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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. CockroachDB vs. Hypertable vs. OpenTenBase vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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

Description

In-memory caching system

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Hypertable Inc.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

SAP

Initial release

2015

2009

2010

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5, January 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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