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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. RDFox vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PouchDB vs. RDFox vs. Rockset

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.oxfordsemantic.techdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationOxford Semantic TechnologiesRockset
Initial release20132010201220172019
Current release7.1.1, June 20196.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic sharding
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
replication via a shared file systemyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
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 lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databasenoRoles, resources, and access typesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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