DBMS > Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. SAP IQ vs. WakandaDB

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Google

SAP, formerly Sybase

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2009

2014

1994

2012

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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