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DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. H2GIS vs. OpenSearch vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. H2GIS vs. OpenSearch vs. TerarkDB

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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.Spatial extension of H2A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA 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 modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#131  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeopensearch.org/­docs/­latestbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperEnterpriseDBCNRSAmazon Web ServicesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2005201320212016
Current release14, December 20212.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageCJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query languageno
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
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersyesyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infobased on H2yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2no
More information provided by the system vendor
EDB PostgresH2GISOpenSearchTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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