DBMS > Derby vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.h2database.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

OpenPie

Initial release

1997

2005

1989

1984

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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