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DBMS > Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb vs. RDF4J vs. SQL.JS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

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

rdf4j.org/documentation

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Konrad von Backstrom

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1997

2015

2018

2004

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

no

yes

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

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes

no

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

no

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

using RocksDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

no

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