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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingFully managed big data interactive analytics platformThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score36.31
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftSAP, SybaseAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20132003201919872008
Current release1.6.25, March 2024cloud service with continuous releases16.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RJava and Transact-SQLno
Triggersyesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2yes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAzure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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