DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com

www.geomesa.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.exasol.com/resources

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Exasol

CCRi and others

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

2017

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual 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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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