DBMS > H2 vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Netezza vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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.

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Symas

Microsoft

IBM

Rocket Software

Initial release

2005

2011

1989

2000

1985

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

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

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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