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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime vs. XTDB

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.64
Rank	#89	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

ignite.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2009

2015

2014

2020

2019

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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