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DBMS > H2 vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA relational database management system that stores data in columnsWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.monetdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
DeveloperThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.GoogleMonetDB BVOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release20052009201420041994
Current release2.2.220, July 20230.9.8.11, March 20162.1.12, February 2017Dec2023 (11.49), December 202318.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptCC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
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 factor on file system levelnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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