DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. VoltDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

machbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.voltdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

machbase.com/dbms

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Machbase

Mireo

VoltDB Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2001

2013

2020

2010

2009

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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