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DBMS > Hypertable vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  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 HadoopAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Widely used RDBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#249  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1254.82
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score35.22
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score4.19
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.oracle.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasehelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperHypertable Inc.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OracleSAPSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20091999198020102013
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016V8.0, August 202123c, September 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceno
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Implementation languageC++C and JavaC and C++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Appliance or cloud-serviceLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleSQLScript, Ryes
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioningyesSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono infocan be realized in PL/SQLnono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesFine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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