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DBMS > Derby vs. DuckDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. DuckDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Spark SQL

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-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 RDBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyduckdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlduckdb.org/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSequoiadb Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release1997201820132014
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20230.10, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple password-based access controlno

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