DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Informix

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. Informix

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Primary database model

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.enterprisedb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/informix

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

EnterpriseDB

CCRi and others

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

2014

1984

Current release

15585

14, December 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

14.10.FC5, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C, C++ and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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