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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousequasar.airethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMquasardbThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro Furieri
Initial release19972014200920092008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20233.14.1, January 20242.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes 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.yesno infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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 ProceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
TriggersyesyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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