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DBMS > H2GIS vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.h2gis.orgnsdb.iopostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homensdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCNRSSimer Plaha
Initial release2013201720052018
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
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 H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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