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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere vs. WakandaDB

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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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2009

2014

2010

2012

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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