DBMS > Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. RavenDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ vs. Warp 10

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#101	Overall
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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
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Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

ravendb.net

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

SenX

Initial release

2009

2010

2014

2012

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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