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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Hive vs. RethinkDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyhive.apache.orgrethinkdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homerethinkdb.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SiteWhere
Initial release1997201220092010
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.1.3, April 20222.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
TriggersyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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