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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. PouchDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasensdb.ioorigodb.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlnsdb.io/­Architectureorigodb.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftRobert Friberg et alApache Software Foundation
Initial release2013201020172009 infounder the name LiveDB2012
Current releaseV127.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, ScalaC#JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
.NetJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Transact SQLnoyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyes infoDomain Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnodepending on modelno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based authorizationno

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