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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Stardog vs. Vitess vs. Yanza

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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 CouchDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.stardog.comvitess.ioyanza.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.stardog.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Stardog-UnionThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYanza
Initial release20092010201020132015
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.3.0, May 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ErlangJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyesno
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 infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serveryes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia event handlersyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication in HA-ClusterMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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