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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. Heroic vs. XTDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSHarperDBSpotifyJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2013201720142019
Current release3.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava.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
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1nono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 rights for users and roles

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