DBMS > H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. TinkerGraph

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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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

machbase.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Machbase

Initial release

2005

2013

2010

2013

2009

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

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

selectable replication factor

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

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

simple password-based access control

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