DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Apache Phoenix vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Spatial extension of H2

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

www.h2gis.org

rockset.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

phoenix.apache.org

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

CNRS

Rockset

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2019

2009

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

HTTP REST

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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