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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Kdb vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopHigh performance Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Time Series DBMS for IoT ApplicationsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitekx.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeyanza.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationcode.kx.comdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMireoYanzaYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20092000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003202020152017
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.6, May 20182.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialcommercial infofree version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanzano
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Implementation languageC++qC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindowsLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data model
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infotable attribute 'grouped'nonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)A subset of ANSI SQL is implementednoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Python
any language that supports HTTP callsC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsnoyes infoTimer and event basedyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningFixed-grid hypercubesnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)noneBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsyesnoyes
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HypertableKdbSpaceTimeYanzaYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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