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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. Valentina Server

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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

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2009

2017

2010

1999

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.0 (May 2024)

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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