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DBMS > Hypertable vs. Ignite vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. XTDB

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

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.64
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#351  Overall
#47  Document stores
Websiteignite.apache.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.timescale.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationMireoTimescaleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20092015202020172019
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016Apache Ignite 2.62.13.0, November 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, Java, .NetC++CClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes (replicated cache)Real-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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