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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

1997

2010

2015

2020

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

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