DBMS > H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

CNRS

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2013

1984

2009

2013

2006

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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