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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  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 HadoopDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiterethinkdb.comwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SAPSnowflake Computing Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20092009201020142011
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.4.1, August 20202.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X
Windows
Appliance or cloud-servicehostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C 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 (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoSQLScript, Ruser defined functionsno
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedyesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replicationyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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