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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. HEAVY.AI vs. VoltDB

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.heavy.ai

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

1997

2016

2010

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.10, January 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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