DBMS > Derby vs. Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Fauna vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. jBASE vs. MySQL

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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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#151	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

fauna.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.fauna.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Fauna, Inc.

IBM

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

1997

2014

2017

1991

1995

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0

5.7

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

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

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Active-active shard replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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