DBMS > Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. JaguarDB vs. RDFox vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.jaguardb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

DataJaguar, Inc.

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

1997

2015

2017

1987

2011

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.3 July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

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

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Roles, resources, and access types

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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