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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgpouchdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCNRSApache Software FoundationMireo
Initial release2013200120122020
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Java, SQLView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes

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