DBMS > H2 vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. RDFox vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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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.

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2database.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

2017

2010

2000

2001

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

replication via a shared file system

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

Roles, resources, and access types

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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