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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. TerminusDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

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

Description

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

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

Widely used RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.58
Rank	#92	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	1234.27
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.oracle.com/database

terminusdb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Google

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

DataChemist Ltd.

SenX

Initial release

2015

2009

1980

2018

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

23c, September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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