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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. HyperSQL vs. MaxDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

hsqldb.org

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2001

1984

2016

Current release

5.1, August 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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