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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TimesTen

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Name	Derby often called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 4.60 Rank #70   Overall #38   Relational DBMS	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS		Score 1.36 Rank #161   Overall #75   Relational DBMS
Website	db.apache.org/­derby	www.hawkular.org	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	db.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.html	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide		docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	Apache Software Foundation	Community supported by Red Hat	Sybase, SAP	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	1997	2014	1993	1998
Current release	10.17.1.0, November 2023			11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache version 2	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	Java
Server operating systems	All OS with a Java VM	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	no	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	no	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC	HTTP REST	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	Java	Go Java Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	Java Stored Procedures	no	yes	PL/SQL
Triggers	yes	yes via Hawkular Alerting	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding based on Cassandra	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Source-replica replication	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	no	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Derby often called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB	Hawkular Metrics	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TimesTen
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