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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDengine

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformSpatial extension of SQLiteTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Graph DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygalaxybase.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFatCloudChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Alessandro FurieriTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release19972012201720082019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023Nov 20, November 20215.0.0, August 20203.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C and JavaC++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsLinuxserver-lessLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#Go
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole-based access controlnoyes
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Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBFatDBGalaxybaseSpatiaLiteTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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