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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx vs. YTsaurus

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb 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 HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.comytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Yandex
Initial release200920172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20012023
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnoyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess Control Lists

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