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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph vs. Valentina Server

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.compostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperThomas Muellerinformationpartners gmbhParadigma Software
Initial release20052005201520091999
Current release2.2.220, July 20233.4.2, February 20241.05.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsyes infoon the application servernoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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