| Hypertable | |
| Developer: | Zvents Inc. |
| Discontinued: | yes |
| Latest Release Version: | 0.9.8.11 |
| Operating System: | Linux, Mac OS X |
| Programming Language: | C++ |
| Genre: | associative array datastore / wide column store |
| License: | GNU General Public License 3.0 |
Hypertable was an open-source software project to implement a database management system inspired by publications on the design of Google's Bigtable.
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.[1]
Hypertable software was originally developed at the company Zvents before 2008.[2] [3] Doug Judd was a promoter of Hypertable.[4] In January 2009, Baidu, the Chinese language search engine, became a project sponsor.[5] A version 0.9.2.1 was described in a blog in February, 2009.[6] Development ended in March, 2016.[7]