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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCNRSHypertable Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Microsoft
Initial release20132009201020142012
Current release0.9.8.11, March 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++ErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnononoyes
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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