DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Linter vs. OrientDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Linter vs. OrientDB vs. Riak TS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

RDBMS for high security requirements

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

linter.ru

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

relex.ru

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

Initial release

2001

1990

2010

2015

2010

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
OS X

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Java, Javascript

Erlang

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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