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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgrockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.rockset.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCNRSRocksetinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20132019201520012018
Current release1.03.5.1, February 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedWindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyesno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnomultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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