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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. QuestDB vs. Warp 10

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.14
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#351  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comhsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquestdb.iowww.warp10.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantquestdb.io/­docswww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperThomas MuellerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014QuestDB Technology IncSenX
Initial release20052001201020142015
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencyselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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