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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Newts vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#357	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#327	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

quasar.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.oushu.com/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

OpenNMS Group

Oushu

quasardb

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1997

2014

2009

2008

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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