DBMS > Derby vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Geode vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

geode.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1997

2002

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2011

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.1, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (OQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Role based authorization

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