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DBMS > H2GIS vs. OpenSearch vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. OpenSearch vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeopensearch.org/­docs/­latestwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSAmazon Web ServicesAlessandro Furieri
Initial release201320212008
Current release2.5.0, January 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
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++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-less
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
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesno
Triggersyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesnone
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, all
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2no
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H2GISOpenSearchSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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