DBMS > HyperSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. JanusGraph vs. mSQL vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

janusgraph.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.janusgraph.org

Developer

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Hughes Technologies

Mireo

8Kdata

Initial release

2001

2017

1994

2020

2016

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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