DBMS > H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Valentina Server vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Valentina Server vs. WakandaDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Object-relational database and reports server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	78.40
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#329	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

www.valentina-db.net

wakanda.github.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Microsoft

Paradigma Software

Wakanda SAS

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2005

2010

1999

2012

2009

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V12

5.7.5

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal 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

yes, with always 3 replicas available

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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