DBMS > H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp KunDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

postgis.net

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

CNRS

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2005

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Data scheme

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

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

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

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

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

yes

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