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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OpenTSDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

opentsdb.net

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

InterSystems

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2001

2018

2016

2011

2010

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2023.3, June 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Transact SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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