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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comobjectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedTobias OetikerSAP, formerly SybaseAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20052017199919942008
Current release2.2.220, July 20231.8.0, 202216.1 SPS04, April 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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