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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. IRONdb vs. SWC-DB vs. VoltDB

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

CNRS

IBM

Circonus LLC.

Alex Kashirin

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2020

2010

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

0.5, April 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes, in Lua

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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