DBMS > H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. RDF4J vs. SiriDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.siridb.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Cesbit

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

1995

2004

2017

2014

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

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

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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