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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. Memgraph vs. MySQL

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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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

memgraph.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

memgraph.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

Social network pages

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Memgraph Ltd

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2009

1984

2017

1995

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.9.10.12, February 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Specific characteristics

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Licensing and pricing models

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