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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

postgis.net

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

kairosdb.github.io

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

CNRS

Cesbit

Initial release

2013

2005

2017

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

simple password-based access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

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