DBMS > H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. Linter vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. Linter vs. LokiJS

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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.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

RDBMS for high security requirements

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.h2database.com

www.hawkular.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

linter.ru

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Community supported by Red Hat

Embarcadero

relex.ru

Initial release

2005

2014

1984

1990

2014

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Interbase Change Views

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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