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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Spatial extension of H2

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.h2gis.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

Developer

CNRS

Spotify

Google

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2023

2013

2014

1993

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

JavaScript

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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