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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. openGauss vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry 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.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
prometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
prometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperHuawei and openGauss communityTobias Oetiker
Initial release2001201920151999
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.0, March 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC, C++, JavaGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL 2011nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C++
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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