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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HyperSQL vs. Ingres vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Well established RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

hsqldb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

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

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Rackspace

Actian Corporation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

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++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

MVCC

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

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