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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RethinkDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOracles in-memory data grid solutionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitehsqldb.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencerethinkdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencerethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleMachbaseOracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release20012014201320072009
Current release2.7.2, June 20232.1.12, February 2017V8.0, August 202314.1, August 20232.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnonono
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersnoyes infoLive EventsClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoconfigurableAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databasenoyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes infovolatile and lookup tableyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationyes infousers and table-level permissions

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