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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitedb.apache.org/­derbyopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOpenNMS GroupOraclequasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release19972014201120092013
Current release10.17.1.0, November 202323.3, December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored ProceduresnononoJavaScript
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationwith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infooff heap cacheyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access control

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