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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. HarperDB vs. JaguarDB vs. YTsaurus

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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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.harperdb.io/docs

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

HarperDB

DataJaguar, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1997

2017

2015

2023

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.1, August 2021

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

rights management via user accounts

Access Control Lists

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