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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. LokiJS vs. SWC-DB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitehsqldb.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperHypertable Inc.Alex Kashirin
Initial release2001200920142020
Current release2.7.2, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20160.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JavaScript APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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