DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Solr vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Solr vs. SQream DB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	44.28
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.73
Rank	#228	Overall
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

solr.apache.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

CNRS

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

1989

2006

2017

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

9.5.0, February 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java plugins

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.