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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

CNRS

Rockset

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2013

2019

2010

2015

2009

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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