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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PieCloudDB vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PieCloudDB vs. QuestDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.openpie.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homequestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftOpenPieQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201320122014
Current release2.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyeshorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
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.yesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACID for single-table writes
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.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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H2GISMicrosoft Azure Table StoragePieCloudDBQuestDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Open source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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