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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.52
Rank	#114	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2013

2010

1994

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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