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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2001

2005

2021

2011

1994

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

23.3, December 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate 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)

ACID

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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