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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. SQLite 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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

orientdb.org

www.sqlite.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2009

2010

2009

2000

1999

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.29, March 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Erlang

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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