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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release201320102012
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
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 locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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 databaseno

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