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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. MaxDB vs. Realm vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

maxdb.sap.com

realm.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2001

1984

2014

2023

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a 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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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