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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

hsqldb.org

manticoresearch.com

realm.io

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

realm.io/docs

Developer

Manticore Software

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2001

2017

2014

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

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

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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