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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.memcached.orgorigodb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalRobert Friberg et al
Initial release2001201720032009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release2.7.2, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20181.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolRole based authorization

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