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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

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

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

janusgraph.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.janusgraph.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2009

2017

1994

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.0.0, October 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
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

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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

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