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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. MySQL vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Widely used open source RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.05
Rank#372  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1087.72
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.mysql.comnsdb.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedev.mysql.com/­docnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCNRSOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun
Initial release2013199520172005
Current release8.3.0, January 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2yes infoproprietary syntaxnouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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