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DBMS > HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelWide column storeWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitehbase.apache.orgignite.apache.orgsqream.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20082009201520172018
Current release2.3.4, January 20210.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.62022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, Java, .NetC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
C++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACIDACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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