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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.h2gis.org

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

postgis.net

www.searchxml.net/category/products

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

CNRS

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

informationpartners gmbh

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

1984

2005

2015

2009

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

HP Open VMS

Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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