DBMS > H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IRONdb vs. LokiJS vs. MySQL vs. SQream DB

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Name

IRONdb 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.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.mysql.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Circonus LLC.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2005

2017

2014

1995

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal and vertical 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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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