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DBMS > Derby vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. InfinityDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerarkDB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceOracles in-memory data grid solutionRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyboilerbay.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.OracleSAP infoformerly SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release19972002200719922016
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20234.014.1, August 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesno
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.yesnonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyesnoyes infoLive Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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