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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KairosDB vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

Full-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 hardware

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#126	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

kairosdb.github.io

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2005

2016

2013

2010

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

1.2.2, November 2018

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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