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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Oracle

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2001

2013

1989

2011

2019

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

24.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

optional

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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