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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. DolphinDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.03
Rank#78  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.dolphindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDolphinDB, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Timescale
Initial release19972018201020152017
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023v2.00.4, January 20223.3 July 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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