DBMS > H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Splice Machine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Well established RDBMS

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

splicemachine.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CNRS

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2016

2014

2000

Current release

12.0, July 2024

3.1, March 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

MVCC

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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