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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. NSDb vs. TimesTen

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperHypertable Inc.InterSystemsKineticaOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20091997201220171998
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 202111 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 scansyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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