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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbygithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgsplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMonetDB BVSplice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release19972014200420141987
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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