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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageSpatial extension of H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitedrill.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCNRSGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122013201420122009
Current release1.20.3, January 20232.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++JavaJavaScriptJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infobased on H2noView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes infobased on H2nonono

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