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DBMS > Derby vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. IRONdb vs. NSDb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/nsdb.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startednsdb.io/­Architecturehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release1997201720171992
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes, in Luanoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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