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DBMS > BigObject vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SurrealDB

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Thomas MuellerIBMSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2015200520142022
Current release2.2.220, July 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuaJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PL
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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