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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Memgraph vs. RRDtool vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgmemgraph.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmemgraph.com/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperMemgraph LtdTobias OetikerDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20012017199920182011
Current release2.7.2, June 20231.8.0, 202211.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxHP-UX
Linux
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
in-process shared library
Pipes
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnoyesno
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsnoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication
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HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBMemgraphRRDtoolTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVelocityDB
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