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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. HyperSQL vs. NuoDB vs. STSdb vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

hsqldb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

STS Soft SC

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2001

2013

2011

2016

Current release

15585

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users and roles

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