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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. MonetDB vs. ToroDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperCNRSGoogleMonetDB BV8Kdata
Initial release2013201420042016
Current release2.1.12, February 2017Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptCJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes, in SQL, C, R
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2nonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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