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System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Spatial extension of H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.CNRS
Initial release200520132005
Current release7.0.0, September 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.yes infosince Version 4.2noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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