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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. KairosDB vs. TerminusDB 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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

terminusdb.com

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

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

kairosdb.github.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

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

Developer

Thomas Mueller

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2013

2018

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Graph 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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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