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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2009

2013

2010

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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