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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. PostGIS vs. SQL.JS

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantpostgis.netsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantpostgis.net/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201020052012
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangCJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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