DBMS > Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. EsgynDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. STSdb vs. SWC-DB

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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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.esgyn.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Esgyn

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1997

2015

1989

2011

2020

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

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

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