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DBMS > H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. Vitess

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerIBMGoogleApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20052014201420122013
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptAda
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 FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnoView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersyesyesUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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