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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. SAP HANA vs. Spark SQL vs. Valentina Server

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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.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

spark.apache.org/sql

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1997

2010

2014

1999

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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