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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. PostGIS

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesWidely used open source RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#100  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1101.50
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.mysql.compostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCNRSGoogleOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release2013201119952005
Current release1.23, February 20218.3.0, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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