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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. H2 vs. Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.h2database.comhive.apache.orgboilerbay.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperExasolThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBoiler Bay Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20002005201220022018
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20224.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
JavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factornoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoRole-based access control

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