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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. TiDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#315  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productspingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperThomas MuellerIBMSybase, SAPinformationpartners gmbhPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20052017199320152016
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.01.08.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesyesyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseActive-active shard replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)No - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configurednono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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H2IBM Db2 Event StoreSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSsearchxmlTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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