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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. IRONdb vs. JaguarDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

IRONdb 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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

www.jaguardb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Circonus LLC.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1997

2017

2015

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

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

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

no

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in Lua

no

no

Triggers

yes

no

no

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

no

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

no

no

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

no

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

rights management via user accounts

no

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