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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Ingres vs. MonetDB vs. Tigris

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Well established RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.monetdb.orgwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSActian CorporationMonetDB BVTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20042022
Current release11.2, May 2022Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Ingres Replicatornone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using FoundationDB
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-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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