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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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.openpie.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Hypertable Inc.

OpenPie

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2009

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

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

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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