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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 simplicityDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/splicemachine.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCirconus LLC.OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice MachineDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20012017200920142018
Current release2.7.2, June 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.2.0, December 20223.1, March 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++ErlangJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes, in LuaErlangyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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