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

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

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

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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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	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

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

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

vitess.io/docs

Developer

CNRS

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Apache Software Foundation

STS Soft SC

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

1993

2014

2011

2013

Current release

3.4-12

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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