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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Neo4j vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonNeo4j  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformScalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offeringsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score44.46
Rank#23  Overall
#1  Graph DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerneo4j.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homemanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerneo4j.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSManticore SoftwareMicrosoftNeo4j, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20132017201920072008
Current release6.0, February 2023cloud service with continuous releases5.19, April 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version3, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux infoCan also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesFixed schemaFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)schema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexedyes infopluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Luceneyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetnoyes
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM infoObject Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes infoUser defined Procedures and Functionsno
Triggersyesnoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes infovia event handleryes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes using Neo4j Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Causal Clustering using Raft protocol infoavailable in in Enterprise Version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noAzure Active Directory AuthenticationUsers, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)no
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H2GISManticore SearchMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerNeo4jSpatiaLite
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Competitive advantagesNeo4j is the market leader, graph database category creator, and the most widely...
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Typical application scenariosReal-Time Recommendations Master Data Management Identity and Access Management Network...
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Key customersOver 800 commercial customers and over 4300 startups use Neo4j. Flagship customers...
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Market metricsNeo4j boasts the world's largest graph database ecosystem with more than 140 million...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGPL v3 license that can be used all the places where you might use MySQL. Neo4j Commercial...
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