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System Properties Comparison H2 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.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2database.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

2001

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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