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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. Newts vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

hsqldb.org

www.leanxcale.com

memgraph.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

LeanXcale

Memgraph Ltd

OpenNMS Group

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2001

2015

2017

2014

2013

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
Java API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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