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DBMS > Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009201320052014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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