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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HarperDB vs. MySQL vs. QuestDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2HarperDB 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.Widely used open source RDBMSA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#243  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.harperdb.iowww.mysql.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.harperdb.io/­docsdev.mysql.com/­docquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCNRSHarperDBOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2013201719952014
Current release3.1, August 20219.0.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaNode.jsC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON data typesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Custom Functions infosince release 3.1yes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterhorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using LMDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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