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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 vs. Informix vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. STSdb

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.ibm.com/­products/­informixkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperCNRSIBMIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Kyligence, Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20131983 infohost version198420162011
Current release12.1, October 201614.10.FC5, November 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, C++ and JavaJavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsno

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