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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGemini vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Huawei and openGemini community

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2009

1989

2022

2000

2020

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.1, July 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators and common users accounts

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