h2

Based on 486 responses from 93 people, we've built up the following picture of h2

Ranked high for:

  1. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  2. This database has a low footprint
  3. This database is very easy to get started with
  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  5. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  6. This database can be a bit arcane
  7. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  8. This database has a very restrictive data model
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. This database is easy for non-programmers to use

Ranked low for:

  1. This database is highly scalable
  2. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  3. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  4. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  5. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  6. This database is very reliable
  7. This database has a good story for replication
  8. This database has a good community around it
  9. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  10. This database is good at high concurrency reads

Most similar to

  1. Sqlite
  2. Access
  3. Flat files
  4. Derby
  5. Excel

Most dissimilar from

  1. Oracle
  2. PostgreSQL
  3. DB2
  4. kdb
  5. MSSQL Server

All statements

  1. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  2. This database has a low footprint
  3. This database is very easy to get started with
  4. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  5. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  6. This database can be a bit arcane
  7. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  8. This database has a very restrictive data model
  9. I am familiar with this database
  10. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  11. This database has very good write performance
  12. This database is good for querying time series
  13. This database has an unusual data model
  14. This database has a very flexible data model
  15. This database is good for querying graph structures
  16. This database has very good read performance
  17. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  18. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  19. This database has a good community around it
  20. This database has a good story for replication
  21. This database is very reliable
  22. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  23. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  24. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  25. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  26. This database is highly scalable