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.

[4] In January 2009, Baidu, the Chinese language search engine, became a project sponsor.