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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.harperdb.io

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

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.heavy.ai

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

CNRS

HarperDB

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2013

2017

2016

1995

Current release

3.1, August 2021

5.10, January 2022

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Node.js

C++ and CUDA

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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