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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgsphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2013200120012009
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Java, SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optional
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 H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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