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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Lovefield vs. OpenSearch vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.siridb.com

Developer

CNRS

Google

Amazon Web Services

Cesbit

Initial release

2013

2014

2021

2017

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

simple rights management via user accounts

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