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DBMS > Derby vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. IRONdb vs. SiriDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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 simplicityOpen Source Time Series DBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/siridb.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.siridb.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCirconus LLC.CesbitSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release1997201720172022
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023V0.10.20, January 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIHTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.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
R
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
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 nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
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 persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardnosimple rights management via user accountsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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Derby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBIRONdbSiriDBSurrealDB
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