DBMS > gStore vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Spatial extension of H2

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2016

2013

2015

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

based on H2

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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