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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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 HadoopEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCNRSHypertable Inc.GoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20132009201420122009
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaScriptJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScriptGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDByesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nononono

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