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

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of SQLiteA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indextinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MicrosoftAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20132010201520082009
Current releaseV15.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
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.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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