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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EJDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen vs. Transbase

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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)

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1997

2012

2011

1998

1987

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

23.3, December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

optional

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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