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DBMS > Derby vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. Rockset vs. Yanza

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.h2database.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrockset.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlkairosdb.github.iodocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationThomas MuellerRocksetYanza
Initial release19972005201320192015
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.2.220, July 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingno
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.yesnonono infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraAutomatic shardingnone
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 infobased on Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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