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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TypeDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Time Series 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	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

sql.js.org

typedb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

typedb.com/docs

Developer

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Vaticle

Yanza

Initial release

2001

2012

2016

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

Linux
OS X
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.

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

JavaScript API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

by using Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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