DBMS > Apache Derby vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostgreSQL vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. PostgreSQL vs. Tigris

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Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	3.04
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	674.32
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#53	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.postgresql.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.postgresql.org/docs

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Atos Convergence Creators

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

1997

2016

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2022

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1703

16.4, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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