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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HarperDB vs. IRONdb vs. Linter vs. OpenTSDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDBMS for high security requirementsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.harperdb.iowww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/linter.ruopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperThomas MuellerHarperDBCirconus LLC.relex.rucurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20052017201719902011
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1, August 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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