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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial 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	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/hana

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

2014

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

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

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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