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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BaseX vs. HyperSQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

basex.org

hsqldb.org

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

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.basex.org

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BaseX GmbH

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

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

Initial release

2012

2007

2001

1998

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

10.7, August 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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