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DBMS > H2 vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SwayDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperThomas MuellerKineticaMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release2005201220152018
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.1, August 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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