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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JanusGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JanusGraph vs. Trafodion

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA multi-model DBMS and application serverA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachejanusgraph.orgtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.intersystems.comdocs.janusgraph.orgtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014InterSystemsLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20012010199720172014
Current release2.7.2, June 20232018.1.4, May 20200.6.3, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serverfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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