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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticspostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2013201620052017
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
Java
PHP
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Transact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2yesyes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access types

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