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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. RavenDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

ravendb.net

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

ravendb.net/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Hibernating Rhinos

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2001

2010

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.5, January 2024

5.4, July 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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 (RQL)

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Role-based access control

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