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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Kuzu vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Kuzu vs. PostGIS

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2An embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilitySpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#389  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#374  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score19.44
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgkuzudb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.kuzudb.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCNRS
Initial release201320222005
Current release0.4.2, May 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMIT licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsserver-less
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
Cypher Query Language
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
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 H2noneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integrityyesnoyes
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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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