DBMS > Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. openGauss vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoMesa vs. JSqlDb vs. openGauss vs. XTDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.geomesa.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

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

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

Konrad von Backstrom

Huawei and openGauss community

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1997

2014

2018

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

0.8, December 2018

3.0, March 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Scala

C, C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

ANSI SQL 2011

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

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 rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

JDBC tutorial: Easy installation and setup with Apache Derby
20 December 2019, TheServerSide.com

Installing Apache Hive 3.1.2 on Windows 10 | by Hadi Fadlallah
3 May 2020, Towards Data Science

The Arrival of Java 20
21 March 2023, blogs.oracle.com

The Ultimate Open Source Database List Profiling 16 Software Tools
30 May 2019, Solutions Review

The Apache® Software Foundation Announces 18 Years of Open Source Leadership
28 March 2017, GlobeNewswire

provided by Google News

openGauss Open Source Community Officially Launch
1 July 2020, Huawei

The openGauss powers database industry forward through innovation
6 January 2022, Global Times

Engineering Students from Thammasat Win 2 'Huawei ICT' Awards to Represent Thailand in Asia-Pacific Competition.
12 January 2024, tu.ac.th

Diversified Computing: Open Innovation for Shared Success
30 September 2020, Huawei

Ethiopian Students Finish third in Global ICT Competition – Ethiopian Monitor
29 May 2023, Ethiopian Monitor

provided by Google News

Share this page