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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. mSQL vs. RethinkDB 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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rethinkdb.com

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

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

rethinkdb.com/docs

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

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Hughes Technologies

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2005

1994

2009

2008

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

4.4, October 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

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

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

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