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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Hypertable vs. OrigoDB

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Name

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

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

8.1, December 2018

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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