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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB vs. Transbase

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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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

sqream.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.sqream.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

SAP, formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

1994

2017

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2022.1.6, December 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

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