DBMS > Derby vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. JSqlDb vs. LokiJS vs. SAP HANA vs. Tkrzw

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Name

JSqlDB 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.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

jsqldb.org (offline)

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

1997

2018

2014

2010

2020

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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