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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. mSQL vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Hughes Technologies

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2001

1994

2010

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

4.4, October 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Journaling Streams

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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