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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Quasardb vs. TinkerGraph vs. Titan

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APITitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgquasar.aitinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­mastergithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetquasardbAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20132008200920092012
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP APITinkerPop 3Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBoptionalyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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