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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2013201020032009
Current release1.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnooptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno

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