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DBMS > H2GIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSpatial extension of H2Spatial extension of SQLiteA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.h2gis.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCNRSAlessandro FurieriVelocityDB Inc
Initial release201320082011
Current release5.0.0, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemsserver-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesno
APIs and other access methods.Net
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infobased on H2nono
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on H2none
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 integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on H2noBased on Windows Authentication

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