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DBMS > Derby vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. Quasardb

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmaxdb.sap.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software FoundationSpotifyGoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997quasardb
Initial release19972014201419842009
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232.1.12, February 20177.9.10.12, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonoyesno
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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