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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Riak KV vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

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

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.07
Rank	#67	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

riak.com/products/riak-kv

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Basho Technologies

Teradata

Initial release

2009

2005

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.0, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript and Erlang

R packages

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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