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System Properties Comparison Apache Derby vs. EventStoreDB

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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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

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Score	3.04
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.eventstore.com

Technical documentation

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

developers.eventstore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

Initial release

1997

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

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
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

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