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

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 serverObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.compostgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.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 release2005200520151999
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 v2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs.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 serveryes
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
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 collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesnonoyes
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 servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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