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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

hsqldb.org

www.sadasengine.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

SADAS s.r.l.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2001

2006

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
Linux
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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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