DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Hypertable vs. Infobright vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MySQL

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Name

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

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#259	Overall
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Hazelcast

Hypertable Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2008

2009

2005

2016

1995

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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