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DBMS > H2 vs. Kingbase vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Kingbase vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#315  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.singlestore.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.speedb.io
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperThomas MuellerBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SingleStore Inc.MireoSpeedb
Initial release20051999201320202020
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 20218.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaC++, GoC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infohash partitioningFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
H2KingbaseSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSpaceTimeSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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