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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. IRONdb vs. Kingbase vs. Sadas Engine

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kingbase.com.cnwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperCirconus LLC.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SADAS s.r.l.
Initial release2001201719992006
Current release2.7.2, June 2023V0.10.20, January 2018V8.0, August 20218.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxLinux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Standard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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