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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. MaxDB vs. MySQL vs. Splice Machine

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Name

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Splice Machine

Initial release

2009

2015

1984

1995

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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