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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool vs. TerminusDB

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolterminusdb.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationTobias OetikerDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2009201219992018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.1.1, June 20191.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
in-process shared library
Pipes
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access control

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