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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. HugeGraph vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

CNRS

Spotify

Baidu

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2014

2018

2014

2012

Current release

0.9

2.1.12, February 2017

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Unix

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Users, roles and permissions

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