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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NSDb vs. OrientDB vs. Tarantool

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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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#144	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#66	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

Developer

CNRS

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2013

2017

2010

2008

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

2.10.0, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

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

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Open binary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, Javascript

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

yes, write ahead logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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