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DBMS > H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareCloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.heavy.aikairosdb.github.io
DeveloperThomas MuellerHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM
Initial release2005201620142013
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.10, January 20221.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsnoPL/SQL, SQL PLno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
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 replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control

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H2HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022IBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBKairosDB
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