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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Prometheus vs. SAP HANA vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

prometheus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

prometheus.io/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SAP

Initial release

2013

2010

2015

2010

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

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