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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2005

2001

1984

2013

2000

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

HP Open VMS

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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