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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. NuoDB vs. SWC-DB

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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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

www.kinetica.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.kinetica.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Kinetica

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2005

2013

2012

2013

2020

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

7.1, August 2021

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

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

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

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

Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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