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DBMS > Derby vs. HyperSQL vs. Hypertable

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. HyperSQL vs. Hypertable

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
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Score6.86
Rank#61  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score4.85
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHypertable Inc.
Initial release199720012009
Current release10.16.1.1, May 20222.7.2, June 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresJava, SQLno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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