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DBMS > H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
terminusdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.ioterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedDataChemist Ltd.Yandex
Initial release2005201720182019
Current release2.2.220, July 20234.0 (May 2024)11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineJournaling StreamsActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access controlAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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