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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2005

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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