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System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. mSQL vs. Vitess

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.26
Rank	#158	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#192	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

vitess.io

Technical documentation

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Hughes Technologies

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2009

1994

2013

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

4.4, October 2021

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

Multi-source replication
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

none

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

no user groups or roles

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