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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. OceanBase vs. SAP HANA

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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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

en.oceanbase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

SAP

Initial release

2009

2013

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.2.2, November 2018

4.3.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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