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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
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Score	3.90
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#248	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Esgyn

Thomas Mueller

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2005

2001

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

All OS with a Java VM

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

yes

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

no

Triggers

no

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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