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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Access vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data gridAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghazelcast.comwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
DeveloperCNRSHazelcastBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Microsoft
Initial release20132008199919922009
Current release5.3.6, November 2023V8.0, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated Mapyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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