On the definition of Hilbert space

The projection theorem expresses a central feature of classical Hilbert space. Do other infinite dimensional sesquilinear spaces share this property? We show here that this is not the case for several prominent candidates; in particular Kalish's p-adic Hilbert spaces, Springers non archimedean normed spaces, the positive definite spaces over ordered fields. This yields interesting characterizations of classical Hilbert space.