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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. PostGIS

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comhazelcast.comhsqldb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperThomas MuellerHazelcastMicrosoft
Initial release20052008200120152005
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 2023V13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infoEventsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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