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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. SAP IQ vs. Spark SQL

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 HadoopColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperHypertable Inc.SAP, formerly SybaseApache Software Foundation
Initial release2001200919942014
Current release2.7.2, June 20230.9.8.11, March 201616.1 SPS04, April 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
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
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 scansyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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