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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. Bangdb vs. eXtremeDB

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.04
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#33	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.90
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

bangdb.com

www.mcobject.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.bangdb.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

McObject

Initial release

1997

2012

2001

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes (enterprise version only)

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