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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenTSDB vs. SurrealDB vs. VoltDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisopentsdb.netsurrealdb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperInterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSurrealDB LtdVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20012018201120222010
Current release2.7.2, June 20232023.3, June 2023v1.5.0, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaRustJava, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyesnoJava
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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