ArcGIS offers unique capabilities and flexible licensing for applying location-based analytics to your business practices.

ArcGIS vs PostGIS Comments


- ArcGIS is Paid and Proprietary
The best paid alternative to PostGIS is ArcGIS. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to PostGIS and four of them is paid so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting paid alternatives to PostGIS are MapInfo Professional, Manifold and GeoMedia.
ArcGIS offers unique capabilities and flexible licensing for applying location-based analytics to your business practices.



MapInfo Professional is a powerful, functionally rich desktop mapping application from Pitney Bowes MapInfo, designed to enable organisations to solve business problems that have a geographical element.

Manifold GIS is a combination of mapping, CAD, DBMS and image processing. The hallmark of GIS is the power of using a visual interface to view, grab, analyze, manipulate and transform data that would not be comprehensible in classic row and column DBMS text presentations.




GIS software, not database extension for handling GIS data