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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used in-process key-value store

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

1994

2013

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

simple password-based access control

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