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

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Well established RDBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.teradata.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Actian Corporation

Teradata

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2001

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

1987

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

11.2, May 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free development 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

C and 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

hosted
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

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

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