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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
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Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.nuodb.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

CNRS

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2014

2011

2009

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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