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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. searchxml

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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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

nsdb.io

origodb.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2009

2010

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V12

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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