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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. Pinecone vs. RethinkDB vs. Splice Machine

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.iorethinkdb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrethinkdb.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCNRSMonetDB BVPinecone Systems, IncThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Splice Machine
Initial release20132004201920092014
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.4.1, August 20203.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
PythonC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, Ryes infoJava
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding inforange basedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes, 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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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