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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

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

Description

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.97
Rank	#178	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS
	#13	Search engines

Score	3.47
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

crate.io

www.ibm.com/cloud/cloudant

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Crate

Hypertable Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2013

2009

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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, but no triggers and constraints

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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