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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. PlanetScale vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. JSqlDb vs. MonetDB vs. PlanetScale vs. QuestDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgjsqldb.org (offline)www.monetdb.orgplanetscale.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationplanetscale.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperKonrad von BackstromMonetDB BVPlanetScaleQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20012018200420202014
Current release2.7.2, June 20230.8, December 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLfunctions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
More information provided by the system vendor
HyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBJSqlDbMonetDBPlanetScaleQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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