DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

CNRS

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2013

Current release

2.0

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Active-active shard replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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