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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

OpenPie

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2001

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2014

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.1, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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