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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Infobright vs. OpenSearch vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

CNRS

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

2005

2021

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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