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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Newts vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS based on CassandraA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.pinecone.ioprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCNRSOpenNMS GroupPinecone Systems, Incquasardb
Initial release20132014201920152009
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, BooleanNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaPython.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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