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DBMS > H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SQL.JS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SQL.JS vs. VelocityDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgsql.js.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCNRSMonetDB BVAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2013200420122011
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JavaScript API.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, Rnono
TriggersyesyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
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-standardnoBased on Windows Authentication

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