DBMS > H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. NebulaGraph vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. NebulaGraph vs. PostGIS vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.mysql.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

postgis.net

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.nebula-graph.io

postgis.net/documentation

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Vesoft Inc.

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2013

1995

2019

2005

2015

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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