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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. HyperSQL

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.esgyn.cnwww.h2database.comhive.apache.orghsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperDataStaxEsgynThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20112015200520122001
Current release6.8, April 20202.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20222.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceJava, SQL
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingMulti-source replication between multi datacentersWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Datastax EnterpriseEsgynDBH2HiveHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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