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DBMS > H2GIS vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score17.38
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Search engines
#2  Vector DBMS
Score28.65
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeopensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASE
DeveloperCNRSThe OpenSearch Software FoundationSAP, Sybase
Initial release201320211987
Current release2.19, February 202516.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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