DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. H2GIS

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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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Spatial extension of H2

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#319	Overall
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.89
Rank	#105	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#372	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.esgyn.cn

cloud.google.com/spanner

www.h2gis.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Esgyn

Google

CNRS

Initial release

2012

2015

2017

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on H2

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