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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. MySQL vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQL.JS

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceWidely used open source RDBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score24.97
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.mysql.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdev.mysql.com/­docsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunSybase, SAPAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20132014199519932012
Current release9.0.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoJSON typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Delphi
Perl
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxyesno
TriggersyesJavaScriptyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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