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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool vs. Tkrzw

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. RRDtool vs. Tkrzw

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtooldbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftTobias OetikerMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release2013199219992020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.8.0, 20220.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsHP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003nono

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