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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableWell established RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetActian CorporationMonetDB BV
Initial release201320081974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2004
Current release2.3.4, January 202111.2, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javayesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Ingres Replicatornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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