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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FatDB vs. Geode vs. Newts vs. Quasardb

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygeode.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlgeode.apache.org/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFatCloudOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.OpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release19972012200220142009
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231.1, February 20173.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (OQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights per client and object definablenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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