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

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

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

Oracle

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2009

1984

2007

2000

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.9.10.12, February 2024

14.1, August 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency 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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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