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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Spatial extension of H2

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

postgis.net/documentation

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

CNRS

Hypertable Inc.

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2013

2009

2005

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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