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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. Riak KV vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#116  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgpouchdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepouchdb.com/­guideswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCNRSApache Software FoundationOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013201220092009
Current release7.1.1, June 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions in JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noyes, using Riak Securityno

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