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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB vs. Transbase

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Name

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

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

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

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/torodb/server

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

8Kdata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2009

2016

1987

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java 7 VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

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
Proprietary native API

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
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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