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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. PostGIS

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Name	H2GIS  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Spatial extension of H2	Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database model	Spatial DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.07 Rank #327   Overall #4   Spatial DBMS	Score 30.88 Rank #28   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS
Website	www.h2gis.org	postgis.net
Technical documentation	www.h2gis.org/­docs/­home	postgis.net/­documentation
Developer	CNRS
Initial release	2013	2005
Current release		3.2.1, February 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source LGPL 3.0	Open Source GPL v2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C
Data scheme	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	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.	no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes	yes
Supported programming languages	Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes based on H2	user defined functions
Triggers	yes	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	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	ACID	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	no
User concepts Access control	yes based on H2	yes based on PostgreSQL
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