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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#335	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#162	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	31.82
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technologies/rdb/overview/index.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

CNRS

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2013

1984

2005

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.2.1, February 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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