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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Trafodion

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetMicrosoftApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2013200820152014
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V12.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in JavanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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