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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MonetDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCNRSMonetDB BVAlessandro Furieri
Initial release201320042008
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20235.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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