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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Informix vs. Realm vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	16.32
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

realm.io

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

realm.io/docs

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

CNRS

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Yandex

Initial release

2013

1984

2014

2023

Current release

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

yes

Access Control Lists

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