DBMS > H2GIS vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

CNRS

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Tencent

Initial release

2013

2014

2013

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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