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DBMS > H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrientDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.27
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#15  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantorientdb.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperThomas MuellerCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20052013201020102009
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoSQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava, Javascriptno
TriggersyesyesyesHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationship in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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