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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Geode vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SQLite

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
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Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

geode.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

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

Percona

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1997

2002

2015

2000

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.1, February 2017

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles

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