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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. Riak KV

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitehsqldb.orgignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperApache Software FoundationInterSystemsKineticaOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20012015201820122009
Current release2.7.2, June 2023Apache Ignite 2.62023.3, June 20237.1, August 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetC, C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesuser defined functionsErlang
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes, using Riak Security
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBIgniteInterSystems IRISKineticaRiak KV
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