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DBMS > H2 vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. MaxDB vs. NSDb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.commaxdb.sap.comnsdb.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperThomas MuellerSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Sybase, SAP
Initial release2005198420171993
Current release2.2.220, July 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyesnoyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
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 replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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