Apache Derby vs. Pragmatic Workbench (discontinued)

If you need a SQL-capable database-like solution that is file-based and embeddable in your existing Java Virtual Machine processes, Apache Derby is an open-source, zero cost, robust and performant option. You can use it to store structured relational data but in small files that can be deployed right alongside with your solution, such as storing a set of relational master data or configuration settings inside your binary package that is deployed/installed on servers or client machines.

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Workbench Enterprise is consistent across devices and users so far. It works the same, and access is easy. I have a problem with its security. If you use an enterprise password to access databases, it's very easy to click the show password on the connection page and expose the enterprise password. You shouldn't allow users to use the same accounts to access the database because that means all users are sharing the same password.

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• Apache Derby is SMALL. Compared to an enterprise scale system such as MSSQL, it's footprint is very tiny, and it works well as a local database.
• The SPEED. I have found that Apache Derby is very fast, given the environment I was developing in.
• Based in JAVA (I know that's an obvious thing to say), but Java allows you to write some elegant Object Oriented structures, thus allowing for fast, Agile test cases against the database.
• Derby is EASY to implement and can be accessed from a console with little difficulty. Making it appropriate for everything from small embedded systems (i.e. just a bash shell and a little bit of supporting libraries) to massive workstations.

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• Querying is easy and quick.
• Updating tables is very easy.
• It gives us very accurate error messages.

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• It may not scale as well as some more mature database products.
• Used it primarily from the command line with openjpa and jdbc, and from third-party clients such as Squirrel.
• May benefit by providing more sophisticated tools to optimize query performance.

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• It has autocompleted, but I find it difficult to use or get to use.
• It doesn't automatically complete table names or field names.

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Our team does the support for us. Sometimes we see download related issues that can easily be fixed by our team. Most issues you will see with one user in your org will probably happen to others, so keep a log and track those issues. Then have a fix for them somewhere that everyone has access to. This will save you a lot of time troubleshooting.

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SQLite is another open-source zero-cost file-based SQL-capable database solution and is a good alternative to Apache Derby, especially for non-Java-based solutions. We chose Apache Derby as it is Java-based, and so is the solution we embedded it in. However, SQLite has a similar feature set and is widely used in the industry to serve the same purposes for native solutions such as C or C++-based products.

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• Being Open source, the resources spent on the purchase of the product are ZERO.
• Contrary to popular belief, open source software CAN provide support, provided that the developers/contributors are willing to answer your emails.
• Overall, the ROI was positive: being able to experiment with an open source technology that could perform on par with the corporate products was promising, and gave us much information about how to proceed in the future.

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• I personally like Workbench Enterprise, and I can do everything I need to do using it.

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