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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hive vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comhive.apache.orgboilerbay.comopentsdb.netterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homeboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperThomas MuellerApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBoiler Bay Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20052012200220112018
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.1.3, April 20224.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Telnet API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioning
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 factornoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonoRole-based access control

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