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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. PostgreSQL

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationSpatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data gridWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
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Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#303  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographwww.h2gis.orghazelcast.comwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docswww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Cambridge SemanticsCNRSHazelcastPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20122018201320081989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release2.3, January 20215.3.6, November 202316.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesrestrictednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.yesSQL-like query languageyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC++
Java
Python
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnonoyesyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnoneShardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusteryes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemno infonot needed in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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