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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

hsqldb.org

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

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2001

1984

2014

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

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

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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