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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Spark SQL vs. Splice Machine vs. SQream DB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Sparka GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­sqlsplicemachine.comsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kinetica.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperCNRSKineticaApache Software FoundationSplice MachineSQream Technologies
Initial release20132012201420142017
Current release7.1, August 20213.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.1, March 20212022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++ScalaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsnoyes infoJavauser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Source-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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