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DBMS > H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.91
Rank#204  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSMonetDB BVSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201320042022
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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