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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. WakandaDB

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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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2009

2010

2014

2019

2012

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.0, August 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes, via alarm monitoring

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

none

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

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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