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DBMS > Derby vs. Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Dgraph vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. Vitess

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbydgraph.iowww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.postgres-xl.orgvitess.io
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldgraph.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDgraph Labs, Inc.InterSystemsThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release1997201620182014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232023.3, June 202310 R1, October 201815.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
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 Proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBDgraphInterSystems IRISPostgres-XLVitess
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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