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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.monetdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1989

2004

2018

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding via remote tables

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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