DBMS > Derby vs. H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.h2gis.org

maxdb.sap.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1997

2013

1984

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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