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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. H2GIS vs. SQream DB vs. Tigris vs. TimesTen

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  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 H2a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.h2gis.orgsqream.comwww.tigrisdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.sqream.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperElasticCNRSSQream TechnologiesTigris Data, Inc.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102013201720221998
Current release8.6, January 20232022.1.6, December 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2user defined functions in PythonnoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on H2noneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonono
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDByes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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