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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB 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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2009

2005

2013

2014

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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