H2 Plugin

Supports direct access to a H2 database.

H2 is the second generation of HSQL, a popular embedded Java database. The current database is not a true spatial database as it does not have any form of spatial indexing.

Maven

Note that the groupId is org.geotools.jdbc for this and other JDBC plugin modules.

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.geotools.jdbc</groupId>
   <artifactId>gt-jdbc-h2</artifactId>
   <version>${geotools.version}</version>
 </dependency>

Connection Parameters

Parameter	Description
dbtype	Must be the string h2
database	The database to connect to
user	User name

Creating

Here is a quick example:

        Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<>();
        params.put("dbtype", "h2");
        params.put("database", "geotools");

        DataStore datastore = DataStoreFinder.getDataStore(params);

The above will reference a database file named geotools located in the current working directory. A full path may also be specified:

        Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<>();
        params.put("dbtype", "h2");
        params.put("database", "/abs/path/to/geotools");

        DataStore datastore = DataStoreFinder.getDataStore(params);

The above examples create a connection to H2 in embedded mode. One limitation to this approach is that it only allows for a single Java process to access the database at any one time. H2 also offers a server mode in which access to the underlying database is made via traditional client-server TCP connection, and removes the embedded single process restriction:

        Map<String, Object> params = new HashMap<>();
        params.put("dbtype", "h2");
        params.put("host", "localhost");
        params.put("port", 9902);
        params.put("database", "geotools");
        params.put("passwd", "geotools");
        params.put("passwd", "geotools");

        DataStore datastore = DataStoreFinder.getDataStore(params);