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

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Name

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.

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.stardog.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Stardog-Union

Yanza

Initial release

2009

2010

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

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 in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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