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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. DuckDB vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Spatial extension of H2

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	123.05
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

duckdb.org

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

CNRS

IBM

Initial release

2015

2018

2013

1983

host version

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

12.1, October 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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