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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EJDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.mcobject.comhsqldb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperSoftmotionsMcObjectSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20182012200120011992
Current release0.10, February 20248.2, 20212.7.2, June 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessserver-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nono infosupport of XML interfaces availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJava, SQLyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersnonoyes infoby defining eventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning / shardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
noneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoRead/Write Lockingyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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DuckDBEJDBeXtremeDBHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere
Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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