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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. eXtremeDB vs. LokiJS

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.mcobject.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

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

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

McObject

Initial release

1997

2001

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

8.2, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

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

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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.

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

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