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DBMS > Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Postgres-XL vs. RavenDB vs. Titan

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.orgravendb.netgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationravendb.net/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperHypertable Inc.KineticaHibernating RhinosAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release200920122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20102012
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.1, August 202110 R1, October 20185.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++CC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyesyes
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoMVCCACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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