DBMS > H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. KairosDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Transbase

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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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#166	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

IBM

SAP, Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2014

2013

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

16.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

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

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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