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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hypertable vs. Vertica vs. XTDB

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Name

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

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.vertica.com

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

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

vertica.com/documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Hypertable Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2009

2005

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

12.0.3, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

.NET

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Key customers

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