Hypertable – An Open Source, performance, scalability, and reliability Database

The application developed has to support performance, scalability, and reliability and to fulfill these requirements Hypertable was developed. This made the Hypertable a high performance distributed data storage system.

Hypertable is an open source project that helps you in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. More importantly this project concentrates on two aspects i.e., on performance and scale.

Hypertable enables you to manage the storage and processing of information on commodity servers, where all the machine and component failures are recovered.

The Hypertable data model includes a multi-dimensional table of information and can be queried using a single primary key.

•    The first dimension of the table is the row key.
The row key which is the primary key that defines the order in which the table data is physically stored.
•    The second dimension is the column family.
This dimension is analogous to a traditional database column.
•    The third dimension is the column qualifier.
Within each column family, there can be infinite number of qualified instances.

•    The fourth dimension is the time dimension.
This dimension consists of a timestamp is embedded with in, that is usually auto assigned by the system and represents the insertion time of the cell in nanoseconds since the epoch.

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