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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. DolphinDB vs. MySQL

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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.

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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.87
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	3.88
Rank	#99	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1163.94
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.dolphindb.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

www.dolphindb.com/help

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1997

2018

1995

Current release

10.16.1.1, May 2022

v2.00.4, January 2022

8.0.33, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

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

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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