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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

origodb.com

postgis.net

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

CNRS

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2013

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2008

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

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

none

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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