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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. HBase vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyhbase.apache.orgboilerbay.comquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBoiler Bay Inc.quasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release19972008200220092008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.3.4, January 20214.03.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanonono
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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