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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2018

2005

2010

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.2.220, July 2023

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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, 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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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Recent citations in the news

DuckDB promises greater stability with 1.0 release
5 June 2024, The Register

DuckDB 1.0 Released
4 June 2024, iProgrammer

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31 May 2024, The New Stack

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5 March 2024, Datanami

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27 March 2024, InfoWorld

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11 January 2024, Oracle

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SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
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