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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. H2GIS vs. Vertica

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSpatial extension of H2Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orggeospock.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homevertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperGeoSpockCNRSOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release201820132005
Current release0.10, February 20242.0, September 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++Java, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
JavaC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnonoyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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DuckDBGeoSpockH2GISVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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