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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KairosDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release201320102013
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control

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