DBMS > HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
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Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
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Score	130.36
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Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2001

2009

1994

2014

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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