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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Boiler Bay Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20132010200220152009
Current release4.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes infousing Azure authenticationno

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