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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MonetDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSCommunity supported by Red HatMonetDB BVSybase, SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132014200419932001
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes, in SQL, C, Ryesno
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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