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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  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 PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APISpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score103.35
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.mysql.compostgis.netwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddev.mysql.com/­docpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperCNRSGoogleOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20132011199520052000
Current release1.23, February 20219.0.0, July 20243.4.2, February 20243.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 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 v2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++CC
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2noyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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