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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. NuoDB vs. RavenDB vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseravendb.netoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdoc.nuodb.comravendb.net/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Hibernating RhinosOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias Oetiker
Initial release20092013201020091999
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20165.4, July 20223.2.0, December 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C#ErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnonoNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (RQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLyesErlangno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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
User concepts infoAccess controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyes, using Riak Securityno

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