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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS vs. WakandaDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

sql.js.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Sybase, SAP

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2001

1993

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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