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DBMS > Derby vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SiteWhere

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used in-process key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software FoundationMicrosoftOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSiteWhere
Initial release1997201519942010
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023V118.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesnoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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