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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Oracle vs. Pinecone vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Widely used RDBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Oracle

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2001

1980

2019

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

yes

no

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

String, Number, 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.

no

yes

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

with proprietary extensions

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

no

Triggers

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

can be realized in PL/SQL

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

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