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

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NameHypertable  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 HadoopIn-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 storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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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Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score125.38
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#344  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationhelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.SAPSnowflake Computing Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release2009201020142011
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyesno
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Implementation languageC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Appliance or cloud-servicehostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes 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.noyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoSQLScript, Ruser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno

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