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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Spatial extension of H2

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Altibase

CNRS

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1999

2013

2015

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes

based on H2

yes

using Azure authentication

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