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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GBase vs. Quasardb

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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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.gbase.cn

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

quasardb

Initial release

1997

2004

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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