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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

CNRS

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

1995

2009

2018

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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 query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

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