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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SurrealDB vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgsurrealdb.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSurrealDB LtdDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2001202220182011
Current release2.7.2, June 2023v1.5.0, May 202411.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaRustProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyesno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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