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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Linter vs. Riak KV vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

RDBMS for high security requirements

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

linter.ru

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

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

Developer

relex.ru

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2001

1990

2009

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

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

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

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

links between datasets can be stored

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

yes, using Riak Security

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