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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. HyperSQL

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

hsqldb.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

Initial release

2012

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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