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DBMS > H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HBase vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghbase.apache.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperCNRSApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCParadigma Software
Initial release20132008200120111999
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 20155.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoCoprocessors in Javanonoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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