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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. Kinetica vs. PouchDB vs. Vertica

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelWide column storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitejanusgraph.orgwww.kinetica.compouchdb.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.kinetica.compouchdb.com/­guidesvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusKineticaApache Software FoundationOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20092017201220122005
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20160.6.3, February 20237.1, August 20217.1.1, June 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes infovia viewsNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)ShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenoyesno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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HypertableJanusGraph infosuccessor of TitanKineticaPouchDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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