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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. OpenSearch

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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.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
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Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1997

2015

2021

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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