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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Hypertable vs. PostgreSQL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

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

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	645.54
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

galaxybase.com

www.postgresql.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.postgresql.org/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Hypertable Inc.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Yandex

Initial release

2017

2009

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2023

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

Strong typed 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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Thrift

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

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

Relationships 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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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