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

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  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 typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument storeDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.80
Rank#209  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpouchdb.comrockset.comtypesense.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.rockset.comtypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationRockset
Initial release20132010201220192015
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
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 supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsall fields are automatically indexedyes
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 RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptnono
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
yesMulti-source replication using RAFT
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 lockingyesyes
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 databasenoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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