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DBMS > Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Tibero

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA multi-model DBMS and application serverDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygeospock.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.intersystems.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockInterSystemsMicrosoftTmaxSoft
Initial release1997199720102003
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.0, September 20192018.1.4, May 2020V126, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnoyesTransact SQLPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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