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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Spatial extension of H2

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.93
Rank	#194	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.h2gis.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Elastic

CNRS

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2018

2010

2013

2016

Current release

8.6, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

based on H2

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