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DBMS > H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenEdge vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 vs. OpenEdge vs. SurrealDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.progress.com/­openedgesurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2documentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSIBMProgress Software CorporationSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20131983 infohost version19842022
Current release12.1, October 2016OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesyes
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groupsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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