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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. PouchDB vs. Rockset

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storepouchdb.comrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storepouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMApache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20132010201720122019
Current release2.07.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnodynamic typing
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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimenoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes 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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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