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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. NuoDB vs. openGauss vs. Transbase

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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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Huawei and openGauss community

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1997

2013

2019

1987

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.0, March 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

free development license

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++

C, C++, Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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