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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Rockset vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rockset.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

Rockset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2012

2019

2000

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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 based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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