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DBMS > H2 vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperThomas MuellerCirconus LLC.ObjectBox LimitedDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2005201720172018
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V0.10.20, January 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary native APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes, in Luanoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and serverJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesRole-based access control
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