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DBMS > Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded 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 solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitemaxdb.sap.compostgis.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentationtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009198420052014
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C++CC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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