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

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

CNRS

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

2001

2011

1999

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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