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DBMS > H2 vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HBase vs. HugeGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
velocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhugegraph.apache.org/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetBaiduVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2005200820182011
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.3.4, January 20210.97.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Unix
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javaasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACUsers, roles and permissionsBased on Windows Authentication

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