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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Ingres vs. Quasardb vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Well established RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hsqldb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

quasar.ai

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Actian Corporation

quasardb

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2009

2011

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

11.2, May 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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