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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.h2gis.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CNRS

Hypertable Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2009

2001

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

3.2.0, December 2022

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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 Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

yes, using Riak Security

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