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DBMS > Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Embarcadero
Initial release200920101984
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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