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DBMS > H2 vs. HarperDB vs. NSDb vs. PlanetScale vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HarperDB vs. NSDb vs. PlanetScale vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
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.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.harperdb.ionsdb.ioplanetscale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.harperdb.io/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperThomas MuellerHarperDBPlanetScaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20052017201720202018
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1, August 2021v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJava, ScalaGoGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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
Java
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1noyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding
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 definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDBUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
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-standardAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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