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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Access vs. RavenDB vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessravendb.netsolr.apache.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessravendb.net/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftHibernating RhinosApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20131992201020062018
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20195.4, July 20229.6.0, April 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (RQL)Solr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesJava pluginsyes
Triggersyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replicationyesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2no infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Authorization levels configured per client per databaseyesRole-based access control

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