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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. HyperSQL vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2001

2017

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

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

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

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