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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. FileMaker vs. H2 vs. RocksDB

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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.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.h2database.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Thomas Mueller

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1997

1983

2005

2013

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

PHP

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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