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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Ignite vs. OpenQM vs. Prometheus vs. Sphinx

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehsqldb.orgignite.apache.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmprometheus.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsprometheus.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20012015199320152001
Current release2.7.2, June 2023Apache Ignite 2.63.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.noyesyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnono
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yesyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
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 infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnono

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