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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Widely used in-process key-value store

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

postgis.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

CNRS

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2013

1994

2005

1998

Current release

18.1.40, May 2020

3.4.2, February 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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