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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfluxDB vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

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

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2009

2010

2013

2015

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.7.6, April 2024

3.3 July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication

yes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

simple rights management via user accounts

rights management via user accounts

yes

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