DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splice Machine vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

splicemachine.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

Splice Machine

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

Current release

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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