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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. InfinityDB vs. PostGIS vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

postgis.net/documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

CNRS

Boiler Bay Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2013

2002

2005

2011

Current release

4.0

3.4.2, February 2024

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.Net

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Based on Windows Authentication

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