DBMS > H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.kinetica.com

www.snowflake.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.kinetica.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Kinetica

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2020

Current release

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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