H2

Note

GeoServer does not come built-in with support for H2; it must be installed through an extension. Proceed to Installing the H2 extension for installation details.

Installing the H2 extension

  1. Visit the website download page, locate your release, and download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/2025.1/extensions/geoserver-2025.1-h2-plugin.zip

    Warning

    Ensure to match plugin (example 2025.1 above) version to the version of the GeoServer instance.

  2. Extract the contents of the archive into the WEB-INF/lib directory of the GeoServer installation.

Adding an H2 data store

Once the extension is properly installed H2 will be an option in the Vector Data Sources list when creating a new data store.

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H2 in the list of vector data stores

Configuring an H2 data store

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Configuring an H2 data store

Configuring an H2 data store with JNDI

See JNDI.