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DBMS > Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. InfinityDB vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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 HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualkairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.MonetDB BV
Initial release2009200220132004
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20164.01.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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