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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Kdb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP IQ

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOracleSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20092000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320111994
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.6, May 201824.1, May 202416.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++qJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingwith Hadoop integrationHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
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.yesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HypertableKdbOracle NoSQLSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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