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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.37
Rank	#160	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

CNRS

IBM

Google

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2014

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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