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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Stardog vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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Rank	#87	Overall
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Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
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Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.stardog.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

docs.stardog.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

Stardog-Union

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2001

2007

2010

2019

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

14.1, August 2023

7.3.0, May 2020

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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