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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS vs. TinkerGraph

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20131984200520152009
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCErlangJava
Server operating systemsHP Open VMSLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functionsErlangno
Triggersyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infolinks between datasets can be storedyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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