DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. Galaxybase vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. Galaxybase vs. H2GIS vs. Kinetica

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Spatial extension of H2

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#375	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

CNRS

Kinetica

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2013

2012

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and Java

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
Python

Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

based on H2

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Relationships 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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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