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DBMS > Derby vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2 vs. Hypertable vs. Pinecone

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.h2database.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1997200520092019
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scans
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor on file system level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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