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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. OpenSearch vs. PostGIS vs. Trafodion

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

postgis.net

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

postgis.net/documentation

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2009

2021

2005

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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