DBMS > H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Riak TS vs. SQL.JS vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

SenX

Initial release

2005

2001

2015

2012

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Erlang

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

selectable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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