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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. HyperSQL vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. HyperSQL vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.iohsqldb.orgrealm.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.iohsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019TempoIQ
Initial release20002020200120142012
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoJava, SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoChange Listenersyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple authentication-based access control

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