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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Firebird vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.firebirdsql.orggreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperApache Software FoundationFirebird FoundationPivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red HatHughes Technologies
Initial release19972000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200520141994
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20235.0.0, January 20247.0.0, September 20234.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
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.yesyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresPSQLyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesno
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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