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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Spatial extension of H2

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

www.h2gis.org

www.monetdb.org

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Microsoft

CNRS

MonetDB BV

8Kdata

Initial release

2010

2013

2004

2016

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

.NET

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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