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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InfluxDB vs. Speedb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.speedb.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2001

2013

2020

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

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

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantages

Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metrics

Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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