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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. SingleStore vs. TinkerGraph vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

www.singlestore.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

docs.singlestore.com

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

CNRS

Rockset

SingleStore Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2019

2013

2009

2019

Current release

8.5, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

optional

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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