DBMS > H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Riak TS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. H2GIS vs. Riak TS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vertica

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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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

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	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

www.h2gis.org

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

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Thomas Mueller

CNRS

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2005

2013

2015

2009

2005

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

restricted

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Groovy
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

based on H2

Erlang

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

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

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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