DBMS > Derby vs. EJDB vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EJDB vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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)

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Transwarp

Initial release

1997

2012

2005

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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