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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

postgis.net

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

CNRS

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2013

1991

2005

2018

Current release

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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