DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Axibase vs. H2GIS vs. Interbase vs. TinkerGraph

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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

Spatial extension of H2

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.h2gis.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Axibase Corporation

CNRS

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

2013

1984

2009

Current release

15585

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

based on H2

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Interbase Change Views

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

Multiversion concurreny control

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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