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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hbase.apache.org/book.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Boiler Bay Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2013

2008

2002

2011

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

yes

based on H2

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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