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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElasticGridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release1997200920102007
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.10.0, March 20228.6, January 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnoyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectoryes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesMemcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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