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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

hazelcast.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Hazelcast

ObjectBox Limited

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2005

2008

2017

2006

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal 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

Replicated Map

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

yes

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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