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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Postgres-XL vs. Realm

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Microsofts flagship relational DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score807.76
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.orgrealm.io
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homelearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperCNRSMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release201319892014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2014
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 202210 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javauser defined functionsno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnone
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 integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
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.yesyesnoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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