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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Interbase vs. XTDB vs. YDB

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.xtdb.com/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Embarcadero

Juxt Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

2005

1984

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Interbase Change Views

yes, each node contains all data

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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