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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

realm.io/docs

vitess.io/docs

Developer

CNRS

OpenPie

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

Current release

2.1, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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