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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP Adaptive Server 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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.h2database.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

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

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2007

1987

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

14.1, August 2023

16.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal 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

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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