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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Riak TS vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

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

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2005

2016

2015

2008

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

3.0.0, September 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

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

Multi-source 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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

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