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DBMS > Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. PostGIS

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 solutionsOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencepostgis.net
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperHypertable Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Oracle
Initial release2009198420072005
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.9.10.12, February 202414.1, August 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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