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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. OceanBase vs. Splice Machine

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Microsofts flagship relational DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.monetdb.orgen.oceanbase.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasesplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftMonetDB BVOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSplice Machine
Initial release20131989200420102014
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 20234.3.0, April 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javayes, in SQL, C, RPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyes infoJava
Triggersyesyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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