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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. PostGIS vs. Transbase

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasepostgis.net/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCNRSEmbarcaderoTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013198420051987
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.4.2, February 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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 infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Interbase Change Viewsyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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