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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Transbase

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Percona

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1987

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

10 R1, October 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud 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

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

yes

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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