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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSSpotifyPinecone Systems, IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2013201420192019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes, 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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaPythonClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesyes, 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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, 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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2

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