DBMS > Derby vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.89
Rank	#103	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

cloud.google.com/spanner

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

Initial release

1997

2017

2018

2014

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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)

yes

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