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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Newts vs. searchxml vs. Typesense 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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

www.searchxml.net/category/products

typesense.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

typesense.org/docs

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

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

OpenNMS Group

informationpartners gmbh

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2009

2014

2015

2017

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.0

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

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++

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

depending on used data model

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, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

RESTful HTTP API

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

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

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

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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