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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. mSQL vs. Pinecone

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded 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 scalemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygeospock.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockHughes TechnologiesPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release199719942019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.0, September 20194.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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