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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	72.95
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2013

2010

2018

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

V12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on H2

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

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