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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

boilerbay.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2001

2002

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

configurable

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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