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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2Widely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1087.72
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.mysql.compostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCCRi and othersCNRSOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release2014201319952005
Current release4.0.5, February 20248.3.0, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2yes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layernonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.depending on storage layeryesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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