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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Kinetica vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server vs. VelocityDB

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.valentina-db.net

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.kinetica.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Kinetica

Transaction Software GmbH

Paradigma Software

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2009

2012

1987

1999

2011

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.1, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

5.7.5

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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