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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. StarRocks vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. StarRocks vs. Titan

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSpatial extension of SQLiteAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.starrocks.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAlessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2001200820202012
Current release2.7.2, June 20235.0.0, August 20203.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaClojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)yes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole based access control and fine grained access rightsUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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