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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2001

2010

1992

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

17, July 2015

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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