DBMS > HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

hsqldb.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

InterSystems

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2001

2018

1999

1989

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2023.3, June 2023

V8.0, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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