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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. InterSystems Caché vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Cloud-based data warehousing serviceA multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.intersystems.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCNRSIBMInterSystemsDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20132014199720182011
Current release2018.1.4, May 202011.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesdepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2PL/SQL, SQL PLyesyesno
TriggersyesyesyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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