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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareSpatial extension of PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.30
Rank#83  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#151  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score118.16
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasepostgis.netwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9postgis.net/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Dwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2001199120052000
Current release2.7.2, June 20235.73.4.2, February 20243.45.2  (12 March 2024), March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
Linux
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
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 infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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