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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Dolt vs. HBase

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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.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#197	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.dolthub.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DoltHub Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

1997

2018

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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