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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

CNRS

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2013

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

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