DBMS > Derby vs. EXASOL vs. MariaDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EXASOL vs. MariaDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.exasol.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

origodb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

www.exasol.com/resources

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

origodb.com/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Exasol

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1997

2000

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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