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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. Kingbase

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Name

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

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.h2database.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Thomas Mueller

Hypertable Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2006

2005

2009

1999

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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