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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Solr

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.kinetica.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.kinetica.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperExasolHypertable Inc.KineticaApache Software Foundation
Initial release2000200920122006
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 20219.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C, C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsJava plugins
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationyesnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes

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