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DBMS > BoltDB vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Spatial extension of H2Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.h2gis.orgwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCNRSCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2013201320142005
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGoJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2noyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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