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System Properties Comparison Derby vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Spatial extension of H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#187	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

1997

2013

1984

2005

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

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

JDBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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