DBMS > HyperSQL vs. TimesTen vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. TimesTen vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.38
Rank	#156	Overall
	#72	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2001

1998

2010

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

Release 22.1

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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