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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.h2database.com

objectbox.io

terminusdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2017

2018

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

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 journaling

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Role-based access control

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