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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MaxDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vertica vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.vertica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

vertica.com/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

CNRS

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

Rocket Software

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

1984

1985

2005

2012

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

12.0.3, January 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

configurable

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

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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Key customers

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