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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. SurrealDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used open source RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mysql.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdev.mysql.com/­docsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2001201519952022
Current release2.7.2, June 2023V19.0.0, July 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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