DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. DuckDB vs. GeoMesa vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

duckdb.org

www.geomesa.org

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

duckdb.org/docs

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

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

CCRi and others

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2017

1992

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

5.0.0, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

depending on storage layer

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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