Popularity

8.1

Stable

Activity

9.0

Growing

Stars 2,995

Watchers 135

Forks 942

Last Commit 12 days ago

Code Quality Rank: L1

Programming language: Java

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

Tags: Database

Latest version: v1.4.200

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8.8 9.3 L3 H2 VS Flyway

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8.4 0.8 L1 H2 VS MapDB

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7.6 0.0 L2 H2 VS requery

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7.5 4.8 L1 H2 VS EVCache

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7.1 9.0 L1 H2 VS Apache Phoenix

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Speedment

7.0 2.4 L3 H2 VS Speedment

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JDBI

6.7 8.5 L4 H2 VS JDBI

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README

Welcome to H2, the Java SQL database.

The main features of H2 are:

Very fast, open source, JDBC API
Embedded and server modes; disk-based or in-memory databases
Transaction support, multi-version concurrency
Browser based Console application
Encrypted databases
Fulltext search
Pure Java with small footprint: around 2.5 MB jar file size
ODBC driver

More information: https://h2database.com

Downloads

Download latest version or add to pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
    <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.200</version>
</dependency>

Documentation

Support

Issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests
Mailing list / forum for questions about H2
'h2' tag on Stack Overflow for other questions (Hibernate with H2 etc.)

H2

H2 is an embeddable RDBMS written in Java.