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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. JaguarDB vs. SAP HANA

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Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.jaguardb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

DataJaguar, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

1997

2008

2015

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

yes

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 (GQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

using Google App Engine

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

yes

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