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DBMS > H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. Kinetica vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. Kinetica vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data gridFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score6.87
Rank#55  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.69
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comhazelcast.comwww.kinetica.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperThomas MuellerHazelcastKinetica
Initial release2005200820122009
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno

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