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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Solr vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgsolr.apache.orgterminusdb.compingcap.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homesolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCNRSApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.PingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20132006201820162009
Current release9.6.0, April 202411.0.0, January 20238.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaProlog, RustGo, RustJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceSQL-like query language (WOQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Java pluginsyesnono
Triggersyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingGraph Partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by key range)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesJournaling StreamsUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenoyes infowith TiSpark Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6yes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2yesRole-based access controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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