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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kingbase vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

2013

1999

2009

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

predefined 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

optional

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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