DBMS > H2GIS vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

Spatial extension of H2

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

TempoIQ

Initial release

2013

2011

2014

2022

2012

Current release

23.3, December 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple authentication-based access control

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