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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Infobright vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1997

2005

2014

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

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

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes, using Riak Security

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