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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

pouchdb.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2009

2012

2010

2000

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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