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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. LevelDB vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 HadoopEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.GoogleAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2009201120142008
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20161.23, February 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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