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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Stardog vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgwww.stardog.comterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.stardog.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCNRSStardog-UnionDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132001201020182009
Current release2.7.2, June 20237.3.0, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaProlog, RustJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-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.nonono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Java, SQLuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javayesno
Triggersyesyesyes infovia event handlersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication in HA-ClusterJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Clusternone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlno

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