DBMS > Derby vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. Memcached vs. SQLite

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

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Name

Hyprcubd 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.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Well established RDBMS

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.memcached.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Actian Corporation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1997

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2003

2000

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

11.2, May 2022

1.6.27, May 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Ingres Replicator

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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