DBMS > Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Immudb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Immudb vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#305	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.hawkular.org

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

maxdb.sap.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

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

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.immudb.io

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Codenotary

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

Microsoft

Initial release

1997

2014

2020

1984

1989

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.2.3, April 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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