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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite vs. Valentina Server

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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.

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

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

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

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

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1997

1993

2008

1999

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

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

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

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