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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL

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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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.20
Rank	#143	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1126.64
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2009

2004

1995

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

8.2.0, October 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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