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

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score0.61
Rank#237  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comwww.risingwave.com/­databaserockset.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRisingWave LabsRockset
Initial release20132010201220222019
Current release7.1.1, June 20191.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptRustC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoStandard SQL-types and JSONdynamic 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.nonononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersyesyesyesnono
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
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonono
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 databasenoUsers and RolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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