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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.30
Rank	#287	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Databend Labs

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2021

2005

2013

2010

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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