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Hypertable

Hypertable is a high performance, open source, massively scalable database modeled after Bigtable, Google's proprietary, massively scalable database. [05][06][04]

Website
https://hypertable.com/[01]
Source Code
https://github.com/hypertable/hypertable[02]
Tech Docs
http://www.hypertable.com/documentation[03]
Developer
Country of Origin
US
Start Year
2008 [07]
End Year
2016 [10]
Acquired By
Project Types
Commercial, Open Source
Written in
C++
Supported Languages
C++, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
Inspired By
Cloud BigTable
Compatible With
H-Store
License
GPL v3
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertable[04]

Hypertable runs on top of a distributed file system such as the Apache HDFS, GlusterFS or the CloudStore Kosmos File System (KFS). It is written almost entirely in C++ as the developers believed it had significant performance advantages over Java.

Database Entry

Hypertable

Hypertable is a high performance, open source, massively scalable database modeled after Bigtable, Google's proprietary, massively scalable database. Hypertable runs on top of a distributed file system such as the Apache HDFS, GlusterFS or the CloudStore Kosmos File System (KFS). It is written almost entirely in C++ as the developers believed it had significant performance advantages over Java.[05][06][04]

History[07][04][08][09][10]

Hypertable software was originally developed at the company Zvents before 2008. Doug Judd was a promoter of Hypertable. In January 2009, Baidu, the Chinese language search engine, became a project sponsor. A version 0.9.2.1 was described in a blog in February 2009. Development ended in March 2016.

Checkpoints[11][12]

Consistent

Hypertable backup and restore are accomplished with the HQL commands DUMP TABLE and LOAD DATA INFILE.

Data Model[05]

Column Family / Wide-Column

Hypertable uses a set of related columns known as a column family.

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Citations

13 sources
  1. Error hypertable.com Dead — Check Archive
  2. GitHub - hypertable/hypertable: A flexible database focused on performance and scalability · GitHub github.com
  3. http://www.hypertable.com/documentation hypertable.com Spam — Check Archive
  4. Hypertable - Wikipedia wikipedia.org
  5. Error hypertable.com Dead — Check Archive
  6. Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting. google.com
  7. Zvents releases open-source cluster database | Network World networkworld.com
  8. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6645/ linux-mag.com Dead — Check Archive
  9. http://www.googlestack.com/50226711/taking_hypertable_0921_for_a_ride.php googlestack.com Dead — Check Archive
  10. Error hypertable.com Dead — Check Archive
  11. Error hypertable.com Dead — Check Archive
  12. Error hypertable.com Dead — Check Archive
  13. https://cdn.hypertable.com/pub/hypertable-goes-realtime-at-baidu.pdf hypertable.com
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