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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	7.46
Rank	#51	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

memgraph.com/docs

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Memgraph Ltd

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2005

2001

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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