| Stable release | 0.9.5.2 / October 24, 2011 |
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| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | associative array datastore |
| License | GNU General Public License 2.0 |
| Website | www.hypertable.org |
Hypertable is an open source database inspired by publications on the design of Google's BigTable. The project is based on experience of engineers who were solving large-scale data-intensive tasks for many years.
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++.
Hypertable has been developed as an in-house software at Zvents Inc. In January 2009, Baidu, the leading Chinese language search engine, became a project sponsor.