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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. InfluxDB vs. Lovefield vs. SQream DB vs. TiDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScripta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldsqream.compingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.sqream.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCNRSGoogleSQream TechnologiesPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132013201420172016
Current release2.7.6, April 20242.1.12, February 20172022.1.6, December 20228.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaScriptC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
JSON over UDP
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonouser defined functions in Pythonno
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynonehorizontal and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynonenoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2simple rights management via user accountsnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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H2GISInfluxDBLovefieldSQream DBTiDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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