DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Initial release

2013

1992

2021

2019

2009

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

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

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

optional

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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Specific characteristics

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