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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. mSQL vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	2.58
Rank	#105	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

CNRS

Embarcadero

Hughes Technologies

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2013

1984

1994

2009

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

4.4, October 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

MVCC based

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

users and table-level permissions

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