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DBMS > H2 vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  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 H2A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperThomas MuellerCNRSRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)KineticaMicrosoft
Initial release20052013199120122015
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.77.1, August 2021V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
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 H2yesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights can be defined down to the item levelAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authentication

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