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DBMS > Derby vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
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Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release19972010201020151994
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.3 July 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM.NEThostedLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.yesnononoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsno

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