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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Qdrant vs. QuestDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedVector DBMSTime Series 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
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorergithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
questdb.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerqdrant.tech/­documentationquestdb.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftQdrantQuestDB Technology IncAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20132019202120142008
Current releasecloud service with continuous releases5.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaRustJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoSQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Yes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rnono
Triggersyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicynoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Collection-level replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infothrough memory mapped filesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Azure Active Directory AuthenticationKey-based authenticationno
More information provided by the system vendor
H2GISMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerQdrantQuestDBSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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