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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. TerarkDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricSpatial extension of H2A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#13  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperEnterpriseDBElasticCNRSByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20052010201320162023
Current release14, December 20218.6, January 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoVector, Numeric and String
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
C++ API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Java
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes infobased on H2nono
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyesyes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noMemcached and Redis integrationyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2noRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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