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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score116.01
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitepouchdb.comrocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Apache Software FoundationFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2009201220132000
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20167.1.1, June 20198.11.4, April 20243.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungehorizontal partitioningnone
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
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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