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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. MonetDB vs. NuoDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA relational database management system that stores data in columnsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasedbmx.net/­tkrzwyaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperHypertable Inc.MonetDB BVDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Mikio HirabayashiQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20092004201320202009
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016Dec2023 (11.49), December 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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