DBMS > H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle vs. SAP IQ vs. Warp 10

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Widely used RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

SenX

Initial release

2005

2001

1980

1994

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

23c, September 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

based on HBase

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

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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