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DBMS > Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. H2GIS vs. LeanXcale vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Quasardb

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperSpatial extension of H2A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.h2gis.orgwww.leanxcale.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasequasar.ai
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperChris DavisCNRSLeanXcaleMicrosoftquasardb
Initial release20062013201520102009
Current releaseV123.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infothrough Apache DerbyyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC
Java
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Transact SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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