DBMS > Derby vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2 vs. KairosDB vs. OpenSearch 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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Rank	#70	Overall
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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.h2database.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Thomas Mueller

Amazon Web Services

Yanza

Initial release

1997

2005

2013

2021

2015

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

simple password-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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