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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

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

www.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

VoltDB Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2001

1994

2010

2012

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

11.3, April 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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