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HSQLDB vs Kyoto Tycoon: What are the differences?
Developers describe HSQLDB as "Leading SQL relational database software written in Java". It offers a small, fast multi-threaded and transactional database engine with in-memory and disk-based tables and supports embedded and server modes. It includes a powerful command line SQL tool and simple GUI query tools. On the other hand, Kyoto Tycoon is detailed as "A handy cache/storage server". Kyoto Tycoon is a lightweight database server with auto expiration mechanism, which is useful to handle cache data and persistent data of various applications. Kyoto Tycoon is also a package of network interface to the DBM called Kyoto Cabinet.
HSQLDB and Kyoto Tycoon can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
HSQLDB is an open source tool with 11 GitHub stars and 5 GitHub forks. Here's a link to HSQLDB's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of HSQLDB
Pros of Kyoto Tycoon
- RESTful API2
- Simple, persistent Key-Value Store2
- Easy setup1