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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jFully managed big data interactive analytics platformJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedDocument storeSpatial 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
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgmemgraph.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerpouchdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homememgraph.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerpouchdb.com/­guideswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCNRSMemgraph LtdMicrosoftApache Software FoundationAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20132017201920122008
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases7.1.1, June 20195.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen 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 languageJavaC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyes
APIs and other access methodsBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, RView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication using RAFTyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Users, roles and permissionsAzure Active Directory Authenticationnono
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H2GISMemgraphMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerPouchDBSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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