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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

kairosdb.github.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

OpenPie

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2018

2001

2013

2015

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1, January 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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