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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. HyperSQL vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.95
Rank	#127	Overall
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	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

hsqldb.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2001

2013

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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