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DBMS > Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score5.27
Rank#67  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingrespostgis.netwww.scylladb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingrespostgis.net/­documentationdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationScyllaDB
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20052015
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCCC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
Supported programming languagesFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes, Lua
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin-memory tables
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users can be defined per object
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HyprcubdIngresPostGISScyllaDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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