DBMS > Derby vs. DuckDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. DuckDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. OushuDB

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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.

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

duckdb.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

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

duckdb.org/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

kairosdb.github.io

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Oushu

Initial release

1997

2018

2001

2013

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

simple password-based access control

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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