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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. RisingWave vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Valentina Server

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.risingwave.com/­databasesphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introsphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperCNRSRisingWave LabsSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCParadigma Software
Initial release20132022200120111999
Current release1.2, September 20233.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 20155.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaRustC++C#
Server operating systemsDocker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesStandard SQL-types and JSONnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2UDFs in Python or Javanonoyes
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Users and Rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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