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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. PieCloudDB vs. Sphinx

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.openpie.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSOpenPieSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132001
Current release2.1, January 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
PL/SQL
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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 H2User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
H2GISPieCloudDBSphinx
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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