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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Yanza 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

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

www.snowflake.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

STS Soft SC

Yanza

Initial release

2009

2014

2011

2015

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

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