DBMS > Hypertable vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. openGemini vs. SWC-DB vs. YugabyteDB

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

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

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

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Huawei and openGemini community

Alex Kashirin

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2009

1989

2022

2020

2017

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.1, July 2023

0.5, April 2021

2.19, September 2023

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

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

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

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

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

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

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

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

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

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

based on RocksDB

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

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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