DBMS > H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.