H2
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Jan 6, 2026first mention
Jun 9, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“H2 fills this gap nicely, easily handling both in- memory and remote JDBC access”
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Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Threads where it came up
- C Is Best 2 mentions
- Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) 1 mention
- Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust" 1 mention
Also written as h2. Data: h2.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“h2 (http 2 impl)”
“using Spring Boot, Kafka, and H2”
“H2”
“H2 fills this gap nicely, easily handling both in- memory and remote JDBC access”
The equivalent "platform native" database for Clojure is Datalevin [0], which has a Datomic-like Datalog query language with SQLite-style semantics. Recommended. [0] https://github.com/juji-io/datalevin
“I prefer to use H2 in some cases over SQLite”