DBMS > Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake

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Name

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.

Description

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.postgres-xl.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

InterSystems

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

1997

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2018.1.4, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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