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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. H2 vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.88
Rank	#187	Overall
	#16	Graph DBMS
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	9.90
Rank	#51	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	5.84
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.h2database.com

www.actian.com/data-management/ingres-sql-rdbms

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Microsoft

Thomas Mueller

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2010

2005

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

2.1.210, January 2022

11.0, April 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Ingres Replicator

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

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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