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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. PieCloudDB vs. SQLite

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.openpie.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Google

OpenPie

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2009

2014

2000

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

2.1, January 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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