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System Properties Comparison EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Esgyn

CNRS

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2013

2010

2000

2018

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

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

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role-based access control

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