DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. Riak TS vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Hypertable Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2001

2009

2015

1994

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.0.0, September 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

only exact value or prefix value scans

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

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

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