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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. JSqlDb vs. MariaDB vs. OpenEdge vs. StarRocks

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.progress.com/openedge

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Progress Software Corporation

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2009

2018

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

1984

2020

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

0.8, December 2018

11.3.2, February 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.5.3, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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