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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Hyprcubd vs. InfinityDB vs. Ingres vs. Memcached

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Serverless Time Series DBMSA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceWell established RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyhyprcubd.com (offline)boilerbay.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software FoundationHyprcubd, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.Actian CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release199720021974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2003
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20234.011.2, May 20221.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaCC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesno
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.yesnonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC (https)Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneIngres Replicatornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardtoken accessnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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