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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2008

2013

2012

2010

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

based on H2

yes

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