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DBMS > Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. OpenSearch vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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 HadoopA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.48
Rank#108  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHypertable Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Amazon Web ServicesYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2009198420212017
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.9.10.12, February 20242.5.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.YugabyteDB Managed is the fully managed database-as-a-service offering of YugabyteDB. Get started quickly, and effortlessly ensure continuous availability and limitless scale of your cloud native applications.
Implementation languageC++C++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
HypertableMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOpenSearchYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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