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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. GridGain vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimescaleDB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.gridgain.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGridGain Systems, Inc.Community supported by Red HatOracleTimescale
Initial release19972007201420072017
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023GridGain 8.5.114.1, August 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.yesyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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