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DBMS > Derby vs. EXASOL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EXASOL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SurrealDB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.exasol.comwww.hawkular.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidesurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationExasolCommunity supported by Red HatSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1997200020142022
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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