DBMS > H2 vs. HarperDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HarperDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Splice Machine

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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.

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, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.harperdb.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.harperdb.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Thomas Mueller

HarperDB

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Splice Machine

Initial release

2005

2017

2021

2008

2014

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.1, August 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

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

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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