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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2001

2009

2013

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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