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

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

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-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 infooriginally from BorlandIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSplanetscale.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasetechfort.github.io/­LokiJSplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerCommunity supported by Red HatEmbarcaderoPlanetScale
Initial release20052014198420142020
Current release2.2.220, July 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptAda
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 Functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraInterbase Change ViewsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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