DBMS > Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. JSqlDb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. Google BigQuery vs. JSqlDb vs. XTDB

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

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

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2014

2010

2018

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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