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System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Well established RDBMS

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.singlestore.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

SingleStore Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2014

2013

2020

Current release

11.2, May 2022

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JavaScript API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

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