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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore vs. Warp 10

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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

Widely used RDBMS

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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2009

1980

2010

2013

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

23c, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Go

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

SQLScript, R

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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