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Name

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

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

orientdb.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Mobiland AG

Hypertable Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2018

2009

2010

2005

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.29, March 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

C++ API
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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