DBMS > Derby vs. Elasticsearch vs. Galaxybase vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Elasticsearch vs. Galaxybase vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb

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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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

galaxybase.com

www.mysql.com

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Elastic

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

Initial release

1997

2010

2017

1995

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

8.6, January 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined procedures and functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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