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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Well established RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.67
Rank#77  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperCNRSActian CorporationMonetDB BV
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2004
Current release11.2, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Ingres Replicatornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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