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System Properties Comparison FeatureBase vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.featurebase.com

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.featurebase.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2001

2011

2015

2013

Current release

2022, May 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

24.1, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL queries

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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