DBMS > Derby vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Splice Machine

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Splice Machine

Initial release

1997

2013

1993

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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