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DBMS > H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCNRSMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release2013200420112005
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, RnoR packages
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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