DBMS > H2GIS vs. Realm vs. Speedb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Realm vs. Speedb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

realm.io/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

CNRS

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2014

2020

2000

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

yes

none

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

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