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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Datomic vs. HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.datomic.comhsqldb.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comdocs.datomic.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperDatabend LabsCognitectInterSystemsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20212012200120181994
Current release1.0.59, April 20231.0.7075, December 20232.7.2, June 20232023.3, June 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageRustJava, ClojureJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, SQLyesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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