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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlprometheus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleTimescale
Initial release20012011201120152017
Current release2.7.2, June 202323.3, December 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsoptionalNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infooff heap cachenono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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