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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Kdb vs. SQLite vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

code.kx.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SenX

Initial release

2001

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2000

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.6, May 2018

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

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

rights management via user accounts

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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