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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

Developer

CNRS

IBM

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2013

1983

host version

1994

Current release

12.1, October 2016

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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