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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Linter vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

RDBMS for high security requirements

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

linter.ru

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

CNRS

relex.ru

Initial release

2013

1990

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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