DBMS > H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. Solr vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. Solr vs. TerarkDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.mysql.com

solr.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

dev.mysql.com/doc

solr.apache.org/resources.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

1995

2006

2016

2014

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C++
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax

Java plugins

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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