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DBMS > H2GIS vs. JanusGraph vs. KeyDB vs. PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. JanusGraph vs. KeyDB vs. PostgreSQL vs. YugabyteDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Document store
Wide column store
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Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#131  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#223  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score654.34
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score2.36
Rank#107  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgjanusgraph.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.postgresql.orgwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.keydb.devwww.postgresql.org/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperCNRSLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.PostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2013201720191989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL2017
Current release1.0.0, October 202316.4, August 20242.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
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.nononoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJavaClojure
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesLuauser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Shardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Serversimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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