Hypertable is an open source database inspired by publications on the design of Google's BigTable.
Hypertable is an open source database inspired by publications on the design of Google's BigTable.
Hypertable runs on top of a distributed file system such as the Apache Hadoop DFS, GlusterFS, or the Kosmos File System (KFS). It is written almost entirely in C++.
Because Hypertable keeps data physically sorted by a primary key, it is well-suited to a broad set of applications.