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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. Prometheus vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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 H2Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.h2gis.orgprometheus.iordf4j.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeprometheus.io/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperElasticCNRSSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SQream Technologies
Initial release20102013201520042017
Current release8.6, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2noyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2yes infoby Federationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nono

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