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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. Linter vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Well established RDBMS

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

linter.ru

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Actian Corporation

relex.ru

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1990

1994

Current release

12.0, July 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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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