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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#94	Overall
	#7	Graph DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2001

2017

2015

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

yes

using Azure authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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