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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Firebolt vs. GeoMesa vs. OrigoDB

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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.

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.firebolt.io

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

CCRi and others

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1997

2020

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Role based authorization

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