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DBMS > Derby vs. Galaxybase vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Galaxybase vs. RDF4J vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygalaxybase.comrdf4j.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release19972017200420142011
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023Nov 20, November 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnonono

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