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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used in-process key-value store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2017

1994

2018

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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