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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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 CouchDBDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comrethinkdb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2009201220092018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.1.1, June 20192.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyes
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding inforange basedGraph 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
Source-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access control

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