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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. Tarantool

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Name	Hypertable  Xexclude from comparison	IRONdb  Xexclude from comparison	Tarantool  Xexclude from comparison
	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	A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity	In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database model	Wide column store	Time Series DBMS	Key-value store
Secondary database models			Document store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS with Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart		Score 0.04 Rank #336   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 1.36 Rank #146   Overall #28   Key-value stores
Website		www.circonus.com/­solutions/­time-series-database	www.tarantool.io
Technical documentation		docs.circonus.com/­irondb	www.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
Developer	Hypertable Inc.	Circonus LLC.	VK
Initial release	2009	2017	2008
Current release	0.9.8.11, March 2016	V0.10.20, January 2018	2.4.2, July 2020
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source GNU version 3. Commercial license available	commercial	Open Source BSD
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C and C++	C and C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows an inofficial Windows port is available	Linux	BSD Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free, schema definition possible
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes text, numeric, histograms	string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean
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.		no	no
Secondary indexes	restricted only exact value or prefix value scans	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)	Full-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methods	C++ API Thrift	HTTP API	Open binary protocol
Supported programming languages	C++ 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	C C# C++ Erlang Go Java JavaScript Lua Perl PHP Python Rust
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	yes, in Lua	Lua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggers	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Automatic, metric affinity per node	Hash sharding based on virtual buckets
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor on file system level	configurable replication factor, datacenter aware	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes, with SQL
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID, read commited
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes, cooperative multitasking
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes, regular snapshots on disk, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts Access control	no	no	Access rights for users and roles
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