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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. H2 vs. Linter vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Thomas Mueller

relex.ru

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2004

2005

1990

1984

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.2.220, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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