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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Ingres vs. Memcached vs. Transbase

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBWell established RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.memcached.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperActian CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20011974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20031987
Current release2.7.2, June 202311.2, May 20221.6.27, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicatornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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