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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

hsqldb.org

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

realm.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SAP

formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2001

2014

1992

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

17, July 2015

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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