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

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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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
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comrockset.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20132010201220192009
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonodynamic typingyes
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 supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeAutomatic shardingnone
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
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 lockingyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesoptional
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 databasenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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