DBMS > Derby vs. H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine

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Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
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	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.h2gis.org

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

Google

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

1997

2013

2014

2009

2006

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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