DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

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

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2012

2010

2006

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
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

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

optimistic locking

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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