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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB vs. Rockset

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftMonetDB BVRockset
Initial release2013201620042019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Transact SQLyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2yesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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