DBMS > H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. SWC-DB vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

manticoresearch.com

postgis.net

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Thomas Mueller

Manticore Software

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2005

2017

2005

2020

1999

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C++

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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