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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Hyprcubd vs. TimescaleDB vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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Name

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

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.timescale.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

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

Technical documentation

docs.timescale.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Timescale

Mikio Hirabayashi

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2017

2020

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.15.0, May 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

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

time, int, uint, float, string

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC (https)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

none

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

Eventual Consistency

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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