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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. Impala

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	143.75
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.25
Rank	#358	Overall
	#5	Spatial DBMS

Score	19.39
Rank	#37	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.h2gis.org

www.cloudera.com/products/open-source/apache-hadoop/impala.html

Technical documentation

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

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/latest/topics/impala.html

Developer

Elastic

CNRS

Cloudera

Initial release

2010

2013

Current release

8.6, January 2023

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

Eventual 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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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