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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Derby vs. FoundationDB vs. HyperSQL vs. XTDB

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Nameatoti  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.56
Rank#245  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteatoti.iodb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbhsqldb.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.atoti.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlapple.github.io/­foundationdbhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperActiveViamApache Software FoundationFoundationDBJuxt Ltd.
Initial release1997201320012019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20236.2.28, November 20202.7.2, June 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaClojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yessupported in specific SQL layer onlyyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonJava Stored Proceduresin SQL-layer onlyJava, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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