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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteignite.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpouchdb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationMicrosoftApache Software FoundationYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20092015201520122017
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.6V17.1.1, June 20192.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java, .NetJavaScriptC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noView functions in JavaScriptyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing Azure authenticationnoyes
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Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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