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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. jBASE vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitehsqldb.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Dwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2001199120002022
Current release2.7.2, June 20235.73.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAIX
Linux
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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