DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. ArcadeDB vs. Dolt vs. H2GIS vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. ArcadeDB vs. Dolt vs. H2GIS vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Spatial extension of H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

arcadedb.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.h2gis.org

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.dolthub.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Arcade Data

DoltHub Inc

CNRS

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2021

2018

2013

2014

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

based on H2

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

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

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

yes

based on H2

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