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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Netezza vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQream DB

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbywww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzardf4j.orgwww.sequoiadb.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBMSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sequoiadb Ltd.SQream Technologies
Initial release19972000200420132017
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
proprietary protocol using JSON.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresyesyesJavaScriptuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnosimple password-based access control

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