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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. PostgreSQL vs. SQream DB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. PostgreSQL vs. SQream DB vs. Trino

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score4.99
Rank#65  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.postgresql.orgsqream.comtrino.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.postgresql.org/­docsdocs.sqream.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperCNRSHypertable Inc.PostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerSQream TechnologiesTrino Software Foundation
Initial release201320091989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20172012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release0.9.8.11, March 201616.3, May 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions in Pythonyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashhorizontal and vertical partitioningdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2nofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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