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DBMS > H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SurrealDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCNRSSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2022
Current release10 R1, October 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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