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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EJDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SWC-DB

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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 high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

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

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Softmotions

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1997

2012

1984

2020

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

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

yes, on a single node

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

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