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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Well established RDBMS

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

maxdb.sap.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.actian.com/ingres

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

CNRS

Actian Corporation

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1984

2004

Current release

11.2, May 2022

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
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.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Ingres Replicator

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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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