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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Apache Druid vs. BigchainDB vs. MySQL

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NameApache Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsWidely used open source RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached API
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.04
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score3.18
Rank#84  Overall
#45  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#215  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score964.98
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbydruid.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.mysql.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdev.mysql.com/­doc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release1997201220161995
Current release10.17.1.0, November 202330.0.0, June 20249.0.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaPythonC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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