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DBMS > HyperSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2001200520141987
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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