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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQL.JS vs. SWC-DB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza 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.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

sql.js.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Alex Kashirin

Yanza

Initial release

1997

1992

2012

2020

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

17, July 2015

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C++

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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

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