DBMS > H2GIS vs. NCache vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NCache vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Alachisoft

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2005

2011

2014

2012

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

optional

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Notifications

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes, with selectable consistency level

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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