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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TiDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewen.oceanbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpingcap.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdben.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOraclePingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20012013201020112016
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.7.6, April 20244.3.0, April 202423.3, December 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++JavaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
LinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesoptionalyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
RESTful HTTP APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyMulti-source replication using PaxosElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBInfluxDBOceanBaseOracle NoSQLTiDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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