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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. OpenQM vs. ScyllaDB vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.scylladb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.scylladb.com

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

Developer

CNRS

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

ScyllaDB

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

1993

2015

2014

2011

Current release

3.4-12

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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