DBMS > Derby vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Hughes Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

1997

1994

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

4.4, October 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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