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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Pinecone vs. TerarkDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSKey-value store
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperOraclePinecone Systems, IncByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2001201120192016
Current release2.7.2, June 202324.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalString, Number, Booleanno
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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