DBMS > Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2009

1997

2013

2014

2016

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2018.1.4, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

yes

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

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

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