DBMS > H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Kinetica

Initial release

2005

2013

2010

1991

2012

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.7

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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