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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL vs. SWC-DB

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Google

Hughes Technologies

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

2014

1994

2020

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

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
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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