DBMS > H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

CNRS

MonetDB BV

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2004

2017

2009

2013

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

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