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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. HyperSQL vs. mSQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

hsqldb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Exasol

Hughes Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2000

2001

1994

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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