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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	3.11
Rank	#86	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#388	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2001

1987

2011

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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