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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl vs. YDB

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.sqlite.org

sqrrl.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1997

2000

2012

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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