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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RavenDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

ravendb.net

yanza.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Hibernating Rhinos

Yanza

Initial release

2005

2010

2015

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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