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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EJDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Tkrzw

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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.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.hawkular.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1997

2012

2014

1989

2020

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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