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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Widely used open source RDBMS

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.85
Rank	#134	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#246	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.janusgraph.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2013

2017

1995

2012

Current release

1.0.0, October 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

Java

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

yes

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

no

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

yes

proprietary syntax

no

Triggers

yes

yes

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

no

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