DBMS > Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. Interbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. Greenplum vs. Interbase vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.esgyn.cn

greenplum.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

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

docs.greenplum.org

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Pivotal Software Inc.

Embarcadero

Transwarp

Initial release

1997

2015

2005

1984

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.0.0, September 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

since Version 4.2

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

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