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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Hyprcubd vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBServerless Time Series DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release2001201320052015
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++CGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesNumeric data only
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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