DBMS > H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

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

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

CNRS

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

SAP

formerly Sybase

Mireo

Initial release

2013

1984

1992

2020

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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